As many as 21,590 hens infected with bird flu were culled at a poultry farm in Chuadanga.
With assistance from the district administration, Rafid Poultry and Hatchery on Saturday culled and buried all the chickens and destroyed 8,400 eggs, district livestock officer Kohinur Islam said.
'For the last few days, hens were dying. On August 19, specimens were sent to Dhaka and on Friday we were confirmed about the infection.'
He said, 'The farm will be under observation for the next three months. An order was also issued to stop chicken trading around one and a half kilometres area of the infected farm.'
Rafid Poultry manager Jahangir Alam told the news agency that more than 10,000 hens in his farm had died since the middle of August.
Source : New Age
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