Since the start of the epizootic, in November 2021, 16 million poultry have been shot in France. Usually, the virus mainly concerns farms in the southwest. This year, for the first time, it is the west of the country that is affected.
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“This is where there was the problem,” explains Thierry Lumineau, indicating a building of 1,800 square meters. The chicken coop, which housed 13,000 turkeys, is completely empty. “We had first cases and in seventy-two hours it was over. All punctured!”, Locked the poultry farmer, a trapped sixties with a well-cut gray mustache. Despite a strict health protocol, his farm, located in Sèvremont, in Vendée, at the limit of Deux-Sèvres, did not escape avian flu. This disease, which is very rarely transmitted to humans, is very contagious and often fatal for birds . “However, I can tell you that I used it, soap and disinfectant,” says Thierry Lumineau.
Since the start of the epizootic, in November 2021, 16 million poultry has been shot in France, the Ministry of Agriculture, which stresses the epidemic peak, announced on Monday May 2, on Monday May 2, on Monday May 2, which has been passed at the end of March “. Since the first case listed, in the North department , 1,364 farms were contaminated. Never seen. In 2021, nearly five hundred homes of contamination had been identified and 3.5 million animals, mainly ducks, slaughtered. Usually, the virus mainly affects duck farms in the southwest. This year, the majority of households (857) were identified in Vendée and in the neighboring departments, where the authorities have ordered massive slaughter of sick, but also healthy animals.
This crisis has a considerable cost. For the State, which compensates the breeders for the animated animals and the induced economic losses, and for the professionals, who will only receive part of the aid at the end of the year. In addition, when a site is decimated, it must be decontaminated and await the agreement of the authorities before welcoming new chicks. However, these poultry will not be mature for slaughter for several weeks. Each day of “crawl space” therefore constitutes a shortfall, despite the compensation paid by the government. “We have a cash hole, while invoices continue to fall,” sums up Thierry Lumineau, who had to contract a bank loan.
“Viral bombs”
“I’m afraid of the future. I don’t want to relive this. But I will continue. No choice,” says the Vendéen, who specifies that his infrastructures are not suitable for others anyway animal species. “What do you want me to do? Heddling? Is no reason to braille, not true? “He also does not intend to change his production system:” Whether you raise animals outdoors or in chicken coops does not change anything. It is the massacre everywhere! ”
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