Poultry farmers in agony as bird flu worsens in Delta1 min read

The management of Oghenejename Farms Limited, Ekrerhavwen-Agbarho, Ughelli North Local Government Area, Delta State, has decried the outbreak of bird flu, lamenting that the flu has wrecked havoc in the farm.

Director of Production in the Farm, Mr. Andrew Unutame, lamented that most of the farms in the state have been affected by the influenza which they had been trying to curtail in the last three months.

Unutame said over 11, 000 birds, including laying birds and the ones at the point of lay, have been killed in the farm in the last three days.

He said: “The bird flu is an airborne disease that kills birds on hourly basis. The first day we noticed, two birds died. Within the next one hour, five birds died, then 10 and the mortality rate began to increase at a geometric progression.