“It leaves you powerless. This has an enormous impact”

In 2016 poultry farm Waddenei was struck twice by avian influenza, low pathogenic at first, followed by a high pathogenic variety. And again the chickens were destroyed. Laying hen farmer Rimer Dijkstra tells his story. “Fate has struck again.” “I saw a completely different situation. This time I immediately knew there was something amiss.” The farm of laying hen farmer Rimer Dijkstra (45) in Hiaure, the northern part of the Netherlands, was struck by avian influenza twice in 2016. Earl