{"id":170953,"date":"2025-11-09T06:00:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T06:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/170953\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T06:00:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T06:00:10","slug":"the-phone-still-rings-with-people-wanting-to-know-if-i-have-any-turkeys-end-of-an-era-as-hand-reared-birds-no-longer-reach-customers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/170953\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The phone still rings with people wanting to know if I have any turkeys\u2019 \u2013 End of an era as hand-reared birds no longer reach customers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">And as bird flu threatens the mass market, farmers fear spread of virus with six weeks to Christmas\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Free-range turkey rearer Mary Breen, pictured in 2022, called a halt this year. Photo: Don Moloney\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Mary Breen Turkeys 04.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Free-range turkey rearer Mary Breen, pictured in 2022, called a halt this year. Photo: Don Moloney<\/p>\n<p>Jimmy Woulfe and Wayne O&#8217;Connor<\/p>\n<p>Today at 06:30<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">As avian flu threatens the mass-produced turkey market this Christmas, many small producers of free-range turkeys have already gone out of business due in part to increased regulations. <\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">For the first time in almost 50 years, Mary Breen\u2019s farmyard in Cullen, on the Limerick-Tipperary border has fallen silent. Ms Breen traditionally produced up to 45 hand-reared free-range turkeys on the family dairy farm. But this year she has been forced to call a halt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"And as bird flu threatens the mass market, farmers fear spread of virus with six weeks to Christmas&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":170954,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[16838,18,135,19,17,4892],"class_list":{"0":"post-170953","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"tag-christmas","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-wayne-oconnor"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115518218416437242","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}