Did everyone else know about this? I’ve found out from a meme on Twitter. To me, It’s just draconian at best, sinister at worst. I guess it’s the new strategy for controlling bird flu. Instead of locking down hens for 6 months of the year and disrupting industrial farming, any suggestion of bird flu in the area and your 7 rescue, pet hens will be culled. I know I’m cynical, but when you know how bad chickens fair in industrial farming and that nobody even bothers to develop drugs for chickens, because they are so disposable, despite them being such a huge part of the food chain, I just feel very sad for them.