If you are a poultry farmer with thousands of turkeys, or if you have a couple of hens in your garden, they need to be housed for the next month according to Defra (and the Welsh and Scottish governments too, but not Northern Ireland) to avoid encountering ‘wild birds’ carrying a new strain of bird…
Category: bird flu
Bird flu is back
Who would want to be Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs? Foot and Mouth, Bird Flu, badgers moving the goalposts, Ash dieback, floods and now more Bird Flu. The latest outbreak of bird flu in East Yorkshire is of a different strain from those of a few years ago (probably H5N8 rather…