The culling of 80,000 chickens to contain New Zealand’s first confirmed case of high pathogenic avian influenza H7N6, or bird ...

Should I still be eating New Zealand-raised eggs and chicken? Yes, our poultry and eggs are safe. Just make sure you follow the usual rules around cooking and eating eggs and chicken. "Avian influenza ...

While it looks like the tree is covered in leaves, the branches are filled with something highly damaging. Find out more.

Stats NZ analysis of the 2023 census, reveals about 13,000 more people became severely housing-deprived, since 2018. Maori and Pasifika each represented about a quarter. Principal analyst Rosemary ...

Officials have not yet found any links between a second chicken farm that has been isolated, and a poultry farm where bird ...

Mainland Poultry is in full response mode and actively addressing the avian influenza situation on one of its South Island farms, Hillgrove Farm. Today we have begun the humane culling of birds in the ...

The high pathogenic type of bird flu recently confirmed in a New Zealand egg farm was not H5N1 strain that people are most worried about and would pos ...

The Ministry for Primary Industries confirms all movement of materials to and from the second farm has halted, while tests are conducted. Deputy director general Stuart Anderson says the property has ...

New Zealand officials are investigating a second egg farm in the southern region of Otago for potential cases of bird flu.

Biosecurity New Zealand has placed a second Otago farm on ‘a restricted place’ notice following the discovery of avian ...

A precautionary notice is being placed on a small free-range poultry farm after a number of chickens died, MPI says.

The culling of 80,000 chickens to contain New Zealand’s first confirmed case of high pathogenic avian influenza H7N6, or bird flu, is expected to get under way today. They will ...