The culling of 80,000 chickens to contain New Zealand’s first confirmed case of high pathogenic avian influenza H7N6, or bird flu, is expected to get under

Officials have not yet found any links between a second chicken farm that has been isolated, and a poultry farm where bird flu has been identified.

The highly pathogenic avian influenza – otherwise known as bird flu – has been found on a free-range chicken farm in North Otago. Laying hens foraging outside were thought to have been infected with the H7N6 strain through a low pathogenic virus from wild waterfowl.