Duck farm affected
Obligation to keep up due to bird flu in Flevoland
An infectious variant of bird flu has been detected at a duck farm in Biddinghuizen. The Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality (LNV) has therefore decided to introduce a national obligation to keep cages.
The affected company is located on the same road as where 3 companies were affected last year. The animals will be culled on Friday 8 December. The affected company is located near the Veluwemeer, where dead swans were also found this week. It is not yet known whether there is a connection between the two cases.
National confinement obligation
The last time bird flu was diagnosed in the Netherlands was in October. This was at a poultry farm in the Netherlands at the time Zeeland Tholen† Last year around this time, 15 companies were culled in several places in the Netherlands, including Flevoland.
Last year too, a national confinement obligation was in force, which was only withdrawn in April. This then caused heavy losses in the poultry sector.
Wouter Job
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