Poultry stalls are compulsory throughout the district due to bird flu. Laying hen keepers in the region are alarmed and are trying to protect their animals.
Jens Abel keeps 20,000 laying hens at the Sonnenhof in Hartheim. After consultation with the authorities, he brought his hens into the barn even before the stall obligation was issued. “An outbreak of bird flu would cost us our existence,” he says in an interview with the BZ. Caution is all the more important. On the one hand, its population is relatively large and an outbreak would be devastating; on the other hand …
