3 Dec 2024

Bird flu found on second property on Otago egg farm

From Checkpoint, 4:06 pm on 3 December 2024

The cull of 80,000 chickens on an Otago egg farm starts tomorrow after bird flu has been found in a second shed on the property MPI said it will take two to three days to euthanise the chickens using carbon dioxide. Biosecurity New Zealand deputy director-general Stuart Anderson spoke to Lisa Owen.