The culling of 80,000 chickens to contain New Zealand’s first confirmed case of high pathogenic avian influenza H7N6, or bird ...

Should I still be eating New Zealand-raised eggs and chicken? Yes, our poultry and eggs are safe. Just make sure you follow the usual rules around cooking and eating eggs and chicken. "Avian influenza ...

While it looks like the tree is covered in leaves, the branches are filled with something highly damaging. Find out more.

Mainland Poultry CEO, John McKay says they're taking every precaution to ensure safe and secure disposal of chickens and waste from affected sheds. He says it's testing all other South Island farms, ...

Stats NZ analysis of the 2023 census, reveals about 13,000 more people became severely housing-deprived, since 2018. Maori and Pasifika each represented about a quarter. Principal analyst Rosemary ...

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

The high pathogenic type of bird flu recently confirmed in a New Zealand egg farm was not H5N1 strain that people are most worried about and would pos ...

New Zealand officials are investigating a second egg farm in the southern region of Otago for potential cases of bird flu.

Biosecurity New Zealand has placed a second Otago farm on ‘a restricted place’ notice following the discovery of avian ...

“Work started this morning to humanely cull chickens in two sheds on a farm managed by Mainland Poultry where testing confirmed cases of an H7N6 subtype of avian influenza in birds,” Biosecurity New ...

A precautionary notice is being placed on a small free-range poultry farm after a number of chickens died, MPI says.

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 way today. They will ...