A wild swan on the Grand Birieux pond on November 27, a greylag goose still in Birieux on December 13. Like the migration cycle of a bird, avian influenza keeps coming back to Ain. In France, highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) was detected in 1,374 outbreaks. “To limit its spread, 16 million poultry were slaughtered, including nearly 11 million in the Great West (Pays-de-Loire, Brittany)”, writes the Ministry of Agriculture. None in Ain.
Vaccine rather than containment
But this epizootic still entails heavy constraints on farms. Containment, first. A drastic solution, in total inadequacy with the specifications of the AOC-AOP Poultry of Bresse, which advocates the open air for chickens, pullets, capon or other turkeys. A measure against which many breeders rebel, when they do not derogate from the rule. They would prefer a vaccine solution. ” In…