{"id":362825,"date":"2025-11-07T19:14:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T19:14:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/362825\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T19:14:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T19:14:17","slug":"cfia-says-it-has-culled-ostriches-at-b-c-farm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/362825\/","title":{"rendered":"CFIA says it has culled ostriches at B.C. farm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/british-columbia\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">British Columbia<\/a>\u00b7Breaking<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian Food Inspection Agency says it has culled the ostrich population on a farm in Edgewood, British Columbia.  <\/p>\n<p>Announcement came a day after the Supreme Court of Canada declined to hear an appeal to save the flock<\/p>\n<p>CBC News  \u00b7 Posted: Nov 07, 2025 1:18 PM EST | Last Updated: 28 minutes ago<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/a\/assets\/texttospeech.svg\" alt=\"Text to Speech Icon\" width=\"44\" height=\"44\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Listen to this article<\/p>\n<p>Estimated 1 minute<\/p>\n<p>The audio version of this article is generated by text-to-speech, a technology based on artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\" alt=\"Four workers in white hazmat suits approach ostriches on a farm.\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1762542857_907_default.jpg\" data-cy=\"leadmedia-story-img\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/>Four workers in white hazmat suits approach the ostriches. (Brady Strachan\/CBC)<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) said Friday that it has culled the ostrich population on a farm in Edgewood, B.C.  <\/p>\n<p>The announcement came a day after the Supreme Court of Canada <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/british-columbia\/livestory\/bc-ostrich-farm-decision-scoc-9.6968394\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">declined to hear an appeal<\/a> to save the flock at Universal Ostrich Farms, where avian flu was detected last December.<\/p>\n<p>The CFIA said in a statement that after consulting with experts, it concluded that \u201cthat the most appropriate and humane option was to use professional marksmen in a controlled on-farm setting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All depopulation activities were completed under CFIA veterinary supervision,&#8221; the agency said. <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>For a full account of the story that unfolded at Universal Ostrich Farms after the country&#8217;s top court declined to hear the farm&#8217;s appeal,<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/british-columbia\/livestory\/bc-ostrich-farm-decision-scoc-9.6968394\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><strong>read CBC News&#8217; live coverage here<\/strong><\/a><strong>.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The CFIA ordered the cull of the farm&#8217;s birds after avian flu was detected in the flock last December and killed 70 of the birds. <\/p>\n<p>The CFIA estimated there were 300 to 330 ostriches on the farm prior to the cull. <\/p>\n<p><strong>More to come..  <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"reportIssue-MwDQL\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/corrections-clarifications-1.5893564\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Corrections and clarifications<\/a>\u00b7<a class=\"reportIssue-MwDQL\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/email-cbc-contact-phone-tips-news-story-1.6466536\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Submit a news tip<\/a>\u00b7Report error<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"British Columbia\u00b7Breaking The Canadian Food Inspection Agency says it has culled the ostrich population on a farm in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":362826,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2147,50],"class_list":{"0":"post-362825","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-canada","9":"tag-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115510016445536752","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362825\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/362826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}