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   AT>There's a lot of statistical information involved with all of this.   
   Statistic   
     >y the chickens in Canada are less cramped, statistically they're less likely   
     >spread a virus, and statistically there's less migratory birds in Canada,   
   but   
     >at's too many statistics to swallow. But despite all these statistics, it's   
   s   
     >l statistically impossible for bird flu to not exist in Canada while it's   
   "ra   
     >ntly infecting American chickens."   
      
   As I just mentioned in the previous message, we are also guilty of   
   keeping most of our egg laying chickens in cramped cages, so I was   
   wrong to suggest otherwise earlier. That's changed a bit over the   
   years and I wasn't up to date.   
      
   And as far as the bird flu thing goes, I think that the vast majority   
   of migratory birds prefer your climate to ours since these birds   
   are generally from other far away countries and not our regular   
   ones that travel North and South to avoid winter..  (Snowbirds?)  B)   
      
   That said, it could well be our North/South birds that do pick   
   up avian flu and bring the odd case back to Canada. We do have   
   some of it here but not in the numbers you appear to get there.   
      
   I say that like it's nothing up here.. We had one egg farmer in   
   British Columbia who had to kill 30,000 hens due to that, and our   
   totals are edging into the millions, but they say that down there   
   you've lost at least 20 million hens to it so maybe the numbers   
   are not so much a result of climate, as I was thinking, but just   
   how many farms there are that can be hit with it..   
      
   I know.. I'm wobbling between two different possible causes and   
   either or both could be correct.   
      
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