Culling of chickens continues in West Bengal

Culling of chickens in bird flu-hit areas of Birbhum and Dakshin Dinajpur district continued for the second day on Thursday.

Culling of chickens in bird flu-hit areas of Birbhum and Dakshin Dinajpur district continued for the second day on Thursday.

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Some of the teams set up by the state animal husbandry department would visit villages in Rampurhat I and II blocks of Birbhum district again as the number of birds culled yesterday was small, official sources said in Suri.

Other teams would visit the villages in Nalhati I and II and Mayureswar I blocks and parts of Nalhati municipal area.

In Dakshin Dinajpur, officials had culled about 2000 chickens at a government poultry farm at district headquarter town Balurghat on Wednesday.

Birds reared in private poultry farms of Balurghat would be culled today, official sources said in Balurghat.