[Dave C]

Typical 

[Herdygirl]

Found a dead wood pigeon under the leylandi last week. Called DEFRA but they are only interested if you find more than 1 at a time. They just said to double bag it and put in general waste.
Dans

So that will presumably end up on a landfill site that looks like this:-

http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/gloucestershire/hi/people_and_places/nature/newsid_8367000/8367792.stm

Sound advice I'm sure.

You couldn't make it up could you? Would burning have been better?

[Daisys Mum]

It's made tonight's sky news,not heard anyone actually mention it but it's Breaking News going along the bottom of the screen 

[lord flynn]

There is a local farm come smallholding who have hens free ranging this just off the main A1 and the owner is a VET and all there geese are free & another one local who breeds ducks as well as selling duck eggs have them all loose why bother.

if they are businesses you could report to trading standards.

[Victorian Farmer]

You are naw wasting you're time keeping them in. Yesterday a nother case so a nother month. They have had this in parts of France for 18 months are they kept no not for a minute.  The place where the swans are no culling and open. Look at the web cam fawl forgen not on.

[Marches Farmer]

I wrote a report a couple of years ago for a farmer rearing organic turkeys outdoors in the Black Forest.  He was looking at bringing in old breeds to strengthen the robustness of the birds' health.  Our Narragansetts could certainly do that and it's one of the reasons we keep rare breeds - once that genetic diversity is gone, it's gone.

[PK]

19,500 bird turkey farm in Boston, Lincs. have now succumbed.

[in the hills]

And another case at a pheasant farm in Lancashire.
Confirmed today.

[in the hills]

This case was discovered proactively. Link between the two businesses.

[Penninehillbilly]

Anybody know where the latest outbreak is? Text alert just says Lancashire, website still just showing '27th latest

[in the hills]

Wyre, Lancashire.

Found during pro active investigations into the other outbreak. The two pheasant rearing businesses are linked.

Go to the DEFRA page and click on the link dated 27 the January.

[Bionic]

We have had 2 SMS messages on our landline which I think must be from DEFRA. The computerised voice is very difficult to understand.
This mornings message said avian flue in Lancashire but I couldn't understand the rest of it but I guess that this is talking about the latest outbreak mentioned above.

[mentalmilly]

I also, for the first time ever, have had a text about bird flu from DEFRA.  Wow, only weeks and weeks too late informing me.  Really impressed 

[in the hills]

Wonder whether there will be more cases found in pheasants now.

Around here the 'wild' pheasants are now or very soon caught up in large catching pens and transported to the breeding pens for rearing. Many sites, often on farms, are used.

We shall see. Had concerns about these farmed pheasants since this started.
 

[Fleecewife]

It's on the front page of the Beeb online 'whole of Britain' News this morning