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Surrey councillor’s turkey farm loses 18K birds to avian flu

Mike Bose described it as ‘life going to hell’
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First-term Surrey city councillor Mike Bose on his family’s turkey farm, on 156 Street. “There are very few turkey farms left in Surrey now, we’re talking about four,” Bose said on Nov. 2, 2022. “This is one of the largest now. Total, there’s 9,400 in one and over there, 9,000 birds, right now. The big birds go to market tonight.” (Photo: Tom Zillich)

Mike Bose’s Medomist turkey farm has been smote by avian flu, with roughly 18,000 birds dead by the Surrey city councillor’s estimate.

Signs of infection began to show on Nov. 16, the farm sent samples to the government the following morning, they were declared positive for the flu and then all the protocols and restrictions – “life going to hell,” as Bose puts it, began.

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About the Author: Tom Zytaruk

I write unvarnished opinion columns and unbiased news reports for the Surrey Now-Leader.
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