Farmers on high alert for Newcastle Disease

UK flock keepers are on heightened alert as an outbreak of Newcastle Disease in poultry and game birds continues to affect countries in continental Europe. Belgian farms have been at the centre of the outbreak with 17 confirmed cases reported since April – the disease has also spread to Luxembourg and the Netherlands. So far only 2 larger flocks have been affected with one seeing 57,000 birds destroyed and a second losing more than 37,000 birds. The remainder of cases have been in smaller flo