No infected poultry farms were found during the screening of the poultry farms in the 3-kilometre zone around the infected farm with ornamental water birds in Heeten in Overijssel. The removal of table eggs and broilers from the 10 kilometer area is therefore again possible under certain conditions. There is also no regional or national confinement obligation.
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For the removal of table eggs and broilers from the area around Heeten, an NVWA exemption is still required and/or must take place via designated (intermediate) locations. Poultry farmers can contact the slaughterhouse, the packing station or Avined for this.
Under certain conditions, the removal of hatching eggs is only possible fourteen days after 24 August. This also applies to moving breeding stock from (grand)parents or laying hens. Avined recommends that you start applying to the NVWA in good time and that you carefully review the conditions.
No confinement obligation
Despite the outbreak on the farm with 1,400 ornamental water birds in Heeten, the risk of bird flu has not increased, according to the animal diseases expert group. For this reason, outgoing agriculture minister Carola Schouten is not yet introducing a regional or national confinement obligation.
The experts give two possible introduction routes for the company: via manure from wild waterfowl, because the company was not properly closed or via the purchase of young ornamental ducks. It is still being investigated whether there is a connection with the outbreak in Bunschoten in the province of Utrecht or whether a new virus variant has arrived.
Contamination risk not very high
According to the expert group, the risk of bird flu is unchanged from 6 July. The bird flu virus still seems to be present in the Netherlands, but the risk of infection is not very great. Vigilance is still required, as is taking biosecurity measures.
There is a chance that the risk of bird flu will increase if bird migration is expected to pick up again from mid-September. Monitoring of dead wild birds will therefore continue and monitoring of live wild birds has started.
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