Locking Bar Eglu Classic

[ajm200]

Checked the Defra website but can't see anything about it. Does anyone know when and if we need to keep our chickens in?

[chelsea]

yes just seen it. Banbury area and it is the deadly H5N1 virus. * (edit Sheila; as you say Chelsea, later amended to H7) I didnt think it was about this time of year?

 

*now updated see post below. Newspaper has changed its article

Edited June 3, 2008 by Guest

[StephanieSB]

Just read this on BBC news site

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7434400.stm

[BERTIE MCSQUIRTY]

here's the link

 

http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-1317966,00.html

[chelsea]

the newspaper I read just now stated the h5n1 virus, literally minutes later they have amended their article to H7.

[ajm200]

It's a nightmare for the farmers isn't it. They seem to be battling one livestock disease after another over the last few years

[Egluntyne]

Blimey....has Claret seen this?

[Lesley]

Yes, she has.... there is a thread in the Nesting Box.

[New2this]

None of the links state which farm it is. I wish they would. My son and I visited the Cotswold Chicken Farm and near by waterfowl park last Wednesday.

 

Oh I hope for their sake they weren't affected

 

Claret have you had any specific guidelines yet?

 

Christine.

[The Dogmother]

It's a farm out at Shennington, some 8 miles from us. We are out of the inner zone, but I need to keep the girls in their covered run.

 

IT is an intensive farm with some 20k birds per shed - they will all be culled.

 

Do you mind if I lock this thread so that all the responses and news are in the one in Nesting Box? That way people only have one place to look for news.

 

Thanks Guys