Bird flu a 'massive worry' for Wales' poultry farms

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"We're keeping everyone disconnected the workplace that doesn't request to beryllium connected here," says Victoria Shervington-Jones

Bird flu is simply a "massive worry" for poultry farms, compounding problems owed to rising costs, 1 husbandman has said.

Victoria Shervington-Jones, from Country Fresh Eggs successful Newport, has welcomed caller measures requiring farms to keep birds indoors and separated from chaotic birds from 2 December.

In Wales, vertebrate flu cases person been recovered successful Anglesey, Gwynedd, Flintshire and Pembrokeshire.

"It's getting closer," Ms Shervington-Jones told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast.

"On apical of each the different pressures that are going connected with a rising outgo to the industry, it's conscionable a compounding issue."

She said it was important that Wales followed akin rules put successful spot successful England to effort to incorporate the problem, arsenic person other poultry farmers successful Wales.

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Victoria Shervington-Jones said vehicles which visited her workplace had to travel bio information advice

From 2 December, it volition beryllium a ineligible request successful Wales for each vertebrate keepers to support birds indoors, oregon different abstracted from chaotic birds.

Keepers indispensable besides implicit and enactment upon a bespoke biosecurity reappraisal of the premises wherever birds are kept, according to the Welsh authorities announcement.

Ms Shervington-Jones explained however sheds lodging astir 40,000 birds person been secured to forestall chaotic birds from entering, portion unit besides wore bio information outfits to forestall carrying the microorganism inside.

"We're keeping everyone disconnected the workplace that doesn't request to beryllium connected here," she said.

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