The New Nation - Internet Edition

UNB, Dinajpur

A total of 450 chickens were culled at a poultry farm at Pulhat in the town on Monday midnight after reported detection of avian influenza.

Zahidul Islam, the owner of Provati Poultry Farm, said he had about 950 chickens of 'low-man browned' variety in his farm. But the chickens started dying on the day of Eid-ul-Azha. "Around 500 birds have been killed in the farm till Saturday," he added.

Zahidul Islam informed the local livestock department about the matter. Later, the sample of dead chickens was sent to Bangladesh Livestock Research Institute, Savar, for test and the institute detected avian influenza in the sample.

The local livestock department received the report from the institute through fax on Monday and culled about 450 chickens of the Provati farm at about 12am.