One of Scotland’s biggest egg producers has been hit by a third outbreak of avian flu.<\/p>\n
A 1.8-mile (3km) protection zone has been put in place at the site at Easter Deans and Blairburn in West Linton in the Borders which is owned by Glenrath Farms<\/p>\n
Biosecurity measures and movement restrictions have been in place across much of the area between Peebles and Penicuik since initial cases of avian influenza were confirmed just before Christmas.<\/p>\n
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The latest outbreak brings to five the number of farms affected in the area, with another outbreak also confirmed at premises near Blairgowrie in the past month.<\/p>\n
Glenrath Farms is a family-owned business and was established in the Borders in 1959.<\/p>\n
Its operations have grown over the years and it is now one of the UK’s leading egg production and marketing companies, producing more than a million eggs a day.<\/p>\n
Scotland’s deputy chief veterinary officer Jesus Gallego Garnica told BBC Radio Scotland’s Lunchtime Live earlier this month that the situation was concerning – but not unexpected.<\/p>\n
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He added that the impact on egg supplies was likely to be limited as the number of farms affected represented only a “small fraction” of the total volume of eggs sold in the UK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of Scotland’s biggest egg producers has been hit by a third outbreak of avian flu. A 1.8-mile…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":436334,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[7394,133107,71391,49,48,181214,181215,84,137865,16378],"class_list":["post-436333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-avian-flu","tag-bbc-radio-scotland","tag-borders","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-egg-producers","tag-glenrath-farms","tag-health","tag-protection-zone","tag-scotland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436333","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=436333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436333\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/436334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}