LONDON – A compulsory housing order for poultry and captive birds in Britain is to be lifted, efficient Could 2, with the specter of chook flu now reducing after the nation’s worst-ever outbreak.
The 4 Chief Veterinary Officers, with obligations for England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Eire, introduced the transfer in a joint assertion on Monday, opening the way in which for the manufacturing of free vary eggs to renew.
On Nov. 29, Britain made it a authorized requirement for all chook keepers throughout the UK to maintain birds indoors.
European Union guidelines, which Britain nonetheless follows, permits for free-range laying hens to be stored inside for as much as 16 weeks within the occasion of a chook flu outbreak and their eggs can nonetheless be labelled free vary.
Since March 21, nonetheless, all eggs from free-range birds that had been being housed have needed to be labelled as barn eggs.
“Poultry farmers have labored extremely arduous to minimise the specter of Avian Influenza and will probably be an awesome reduction that they'll now enable their birds outside entry once more,” James Mottershead, chair of the Nationwide Farmers Union poultry board mentioned in an announcement.
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