Comments on: Health Update: Peanuts, Salmonella, and Backyard Birds

By: Lily

Lily — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 23:44:39 +0000

I think I’ve seen a Pine Siskin with salmonella.

By: wild bird supplies

wild bird supplies — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 13:14:36 +0000

Great points. Thanks for sharing that info. We have several suet blocks hanging in our backyard. I sure hope I’m killing any the birds in the area. I keep my a look out…

By: bird feeders

bird feeders — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 12:24:51 +0000

That is very interesting and good to know. I never thought about bird suet and Salmonella in the same thought. I hope the makers of suet are taking extra precautions to stop the spread of Salmonella in the products

By: glass bird feeders

glass bird feeders — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 16:44:22 +0000

Bird feeders are the greatest way to bring all kinds of exotic species of birds into ones life….

I currently reside in South Jersey….

I have a glass bird feeder in my front yard and it really is amazing all the beautiful birds that come into my yard…

Plus it makes me feel good that I’m providing them with a good food source…..

Thanks,

Chris

By: Barbara A. Cox

Barbara A. Cox — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 15:43:11 +0000

What is the current level of concern for this disease. I live in Maine.

By: jptheo

jptheo — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 20:44:00 +0000

This was very informative. Thank you for taking the time to look into this and let people know. I know that those of us who like to watch the birds, would not like to see them become sick.

jptheo

By: maria gritsch

maria gritsch — Thu, 14 May 2009 17:21:47 +0000

Maybe I should toss out this 8lb sack of Kaytee Ultra ‘waste free’ bird food since it’s composed largely of peanuts, etc…it was marked down at Target, from 18.99 to 9.44….?

i thought of roasting the contents in the oven at 350, for an hour or so,….will that eliminate any salmonella or other pathogens?

Guess I also better do a better job of cleaning areas….

here in so cal we get lots of goldfiches (nyger eaters), migrators, and BandTails and they go through huge quantites of food per month, especially right now

By: Jeramie Dreyfuss

Jeramie Dreyfuss — Tue, 05 May 2009 18:26:58 +0000

Iprobably spent $1,000. a month buying nyger seed and sunflower chips this winter and spent about 3 hours a day refilling all the feeders and heated birdbaths, I just wish I had known to recognize a bird who died of salmonella and knew to disinfect my feeders at the least each week. In the end 65 pine siskins died before we got it all cleaned up and I sent 8 dead birds to a wildlife lab for necrospy and salmonella was dianosed. Sadly, these dead birds are all over my state but with a necropsy our government officials will not call it salmonella. They die with seed on their beak and basically they starve to death even though they are always at the feeder or bath because salmonella causes a lump in their throat and the food and water can’t get past. I found 2 dead like this last winter at my back door. I have been so frustrated trying to get papers/companies who sell bird seed, etc. to get the word out that we must disinfect our feeders and the ground beneath. We must pick up all the old shells which is a huge job. I used a shop vac and when that didn’t work well enough I covered over the old seed with new soil or gravel.A great idea is to put a childs blue wading pool under the feeders and then discard the seeds that fall in and hose out the feces. It broke my heart to see my little birds get sick. It also mad me nuts that people are in such denial about why the birds died. No, all 400 birds did not fly in to your window and if they did you need to fix that. Also, don’t use bleach to clean hummingbird feeders. Thank you for helping to educate us. We love birds and don’t want to harm them.

By: Judy Voldstad

Judy Voldstad — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 17:20:14 +0000

please keep me updated on all backyard birding thanks

By: Paulie

Paulie — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 23:19:28 +0000

Nobody seems to remember but this just happened in late ’07 with peanut butter too! Never heard the outcome of that but it resulted in the recall of products going back six months.

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