{"id":272553,"date":"2025-11-09T18:06:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T18:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/272553\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T18:06:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T18:06:15","slug":"ostrich-cull-complete-at-b-c-farm-flock-of-birds-shot-dead-cfia-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/272553\/","title":{"rendered":"Ostrich cull complete at B.C. farm, flock of birds shot dead, CFIA says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tDescrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tIncrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>An <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/ostrich-cull\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">ostrich cull<\/a> ordered by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) at a farm in Edgewood, B.C., has been completed.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/d21y75miwcfqoq.cloudfront.net\/70c8fc80\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A Global News camera operator at the scene of the Universal <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/ostrich-farm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Ostrich Farm<\/a> said <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11513951\/ostriches-decision-supreme-court-bc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">gunshots were first heard<\/a> around 6 p.m. on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>As of Friday morning, the flock of 300 to 330 birds has been declared dead.<\/p>\n<p>Supporters of the farm could be heard chanting and yelling, angrily decrying the cull.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement on Friday, the CFIA said the birds were shot by \u201cprofessional marksmen in a controlled on-farm setting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis method is consistent with Canadian Veterinary Medical Association and American Veterinary Medical Association recommendations and may be used as required, particularly when other methods are impractical,\u201d the organization said.<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The CFIA confirmed that the farm remains quarantined under the Health of Animals Act and that disposal of the birds\u2019 carcasses has begun.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/national.jpg\" alt=\"For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news alerts delivered directly to you when they happen.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet breaking National news<\/p>\n<p>For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news alerts delivered directly to you when they happen.<\/p>\n<p>RCMP officers were on site and said no one was injured or arrested.<\/p>\n<p>The owners of the farm had been fighting the cull, which was ordered after an outbreak of avian flu.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, the last legal roadblock to the cull was lifted when the Supreme Court of Canada declined to hear their final appeal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe CFIA is not going to break us; the CFIA has just given us more motivation than ever to continue marching on and protect agricultural-led industry, to protect life versus death,\u201d Katie Pasitney, a spokesperson for the Universal Ostrich Farm, said.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tTrending Now\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11518014\/trailer-park-boys-charges\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1762711574_496_5ebd7024cd2541f4ed3a1ac3186d649c9c197365394cc0053ddec5ebb4507bae.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tTrailer Park Boys actor Mike Smith charged with sexual assault for 2017 incident\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11517856\/yes-you-do-need-to-clean-your-water-bottle-heres-why-and-how\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1762711575_113_cfb05ef79f3b8ecb52e942e4179bfaef26842d4f7179711e55c1c427b85a616e_e94b6e.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tYes, you do need to clean your water bottle. Here\u2019s why and how\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-video__image\" alt=\"Click to play video: '\u2018Worst mistake in Canadian history\u2019: Outrage after Canada\u2019s top court rejects B.C. ostrich cull appeal bid'\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/251106-NEETU.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"   data-\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t2:11<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u2018Worst mistake in Canadian history\u2019: Outrage after Canada\u2019s top court rejects B.C. ostrich cull appeal bid\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\tPrevious Video<\/p>\n<p>\t\tNext Video<\/p>\n<p>Dave Bilinski, co-owner of the farm, told Global News on Friday morning that they don\u2019t know what happened with the ostriches on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wish we knew. They won\u2019t let us in there to see anything,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe know that they had around 250 birds altogether in there, again, we don\u2019t know for sure because they wouldn\u2019t let us in for a count, they wouldn\u2019t let us do anything.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>More to come.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2025 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Descrease article font size Increase article font size An ostrich cull ordered by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":272554,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[49,48,52204,990,66,323],"class_list":["post-272553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-ostrich-cull","tag-ostrich-farm","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272553\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}