Universal Ostrich Farms Inc. (UOF) will be headed to Ottawa on July 15 for a one-day appeal hearing with the goal of reversing the decision to cull 400 ostriches.

Two new H5N1 outbreaks confirmed in North West and Mpumalanga provinces. • Government plans first-ever mass poultry vaccination campaign underway. • Past 2023 epidemic led to culling of 10.5 million ...

Without protocol reforms, mass vaccinations of the national flock will be unlikely. Astral Foods became the first broiler ...

Long Island’s last commercial duck farm is rebuilding after a bird flu outbreak forced the destruction of its entire ...

B.C. owners of ostriches hope high-powered names and bird-flu survivor will save flock from cull Gary Mason: Canada wants to kill 400 ostriches. Sadly, it’s the right thing to do ...

A British Columbia ostrich farm faces federal pressure to cull its flock after a unique avian influenza strain, linked to a human case, was discovered. The CFIA fined the farm $20,000 for biosecurity ...

“We need to access the vaccine that the federal government has already approved,” he said. “We need to be able to start giving it to our flocks.” The cull comes after the federal government recently ...

PHOENIX, (AZFamily) - In 2024, there were at least five bird flu outbreaks in Arizona; this year, there have been at least three. Now, animal advocates are pushing for more protocols to be put in ...

What is avian flu? Avian flu viruses occur naturally among wild birds and spread easily from bird to bird. In 2022, a more infectious avian flu virus appeared in poultry farms in Canada and the U.S.

The Regional District of Central Kootenay in British Columbia says it will ask the Canadian Food Inspection Agency to conduct further testing for avian flu on a flock of ostriches facing a cull, ...

The Regional District of Central Kootenay in British Columbia says it will ask the Canadian Food Inspection Agency to conduct further testing for avian flu on a flock of ostriches facing a cull ...

But by now bird flu is out of the barn, so to speak. It’s infected nearly 500 species of wild birds and mammals ranging from foxes to zoo tigers. It’s time to consider another means of stopping its ...