Half of Britain’s free-range turkeys have died of bird flu as the disease casts doubt on the future of free-range supply at Christmas, poultry farmers say.
About 600,000 of the 1.2 million free-range turkeys produced annually have died in the worst ever outbreak of the disease, the British Poultry Council told MPs on the environmental audit committee yesterday.
About 1.6 million birds have been culled. Free-range farms are particularly vulnerable because their turkeys are in the open so it is easier for the disease to spread from wild birds.
“Free-range particularly has been hit very, very hard,” Richard Griffiths, the poultry council chief executive, said.
Paul Kelly, a poultry farmer, told MPs: “There will be a big, big shortage of free-range British turkeys this year.”
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2022-11-30 00:01:00Z
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