There are rules governing the keeping of hens in the UK in order to minimise the possibility of an outbreak of bird flu occurring in the UK because there have been outbreaks of the highly pathogenic avian influenza in poultry and wild birds in several …
There has been a surge in the number of pet hens and cockerels abandoned and it is put down to several factors including the following: Bird flu. Bird flu is in the news at the moment. It is the H5N8 strain which accounts for the …
VINZIEUX, FRANCE – NEWS AND COMMENT: A 47-year-old fire officer, named as Gérard A by the media, was so incensed by being kept awake by the crowing of his neighbour’s rooster, Marcel, that he shot it and finished it off with an iron bar in …
