SCOTS VETS BATTLE NEWCASTLE DISEASE IN PARTRIDGES
October 1st, 2006
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE STATE Veterinary Service, in Scotland, has culled around 14,000 poultry, mainly grey partridge being reared for meat, to stamp out an outbreak of Newcastle Disease in East Lothian. Restrictions on moving poultry and hatching eggs have been imposed within a 3km 'protection zone' and 10km 'surveillance zone' centred on Fenton Barns, Drem.
These rules will remain in place well into November, only being lifted if there are no further outbreaks of the disease. The variant is Pigeon PMV1, which is common in feral pigeons population, but which ...
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