One thousand and one hundred chickens at the farm have been culled after the confirmation of bird flu at the poultry farm owned by one Dol Kumari Hamal, said Ram Kumar Karki, Chief of the District Livestock Service Office, Chitwan.[break]
The office stated that 900 out of some two thousand chickens at the farm have already died due to bird flu. Karki said that chickens in areas around the farm have also been killed and the area sanitized.
Samples were sent on Friday to Kathmandu for veterinary lab for tests.
The District Livestock Service Office said that bird flu has been confirmed at five poultry farms in the district in this month alone. The poultry farmers are in a state of anxiety with the detection of bird flu one after another in the district.
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