- Tuesday, 30 June 2026
Kavre, June 30: The district authority has culled as many as 40,000 domestic fowl- chicken and ducks- in response to increasing spread of bird flu.
The District Livestock Office, Dhulikhel informed that it destroyed 40,729 birds kept in commercial farms. The chickens of layer species and ducks were destroyed after they began dying due to influenza.
Senior veterinarian Dr Bajra Kishor Thakur informed that avian influenza took toll on poultry farms of ward no 6 and 13 of Banepa Municipality and ward no 7, 8 and 9 of Panauti Municipality.
The infection might have spread rapidly also because of random disposal of chickens and ducks which died of bird flu, Thakur said, adding that dumping of dead and infected birds must be safe. In view of the spread, the Office has intensified rigorous test, management and supply of the domestic fowls.
He urged the concerned poultry farmers and entrepreneurs to ensure sanitation and sanitization in farm and during supply. The protocol on bio-security at commercial poultry farm must be adhered, Thakur stressed.
However, it is argued that the infection spread rapidly because of slow results of laboratory tests. In view of growing risk, the local authority has beefed up inspection of fowl supply to curb illegal transport.
250 pigs die of African swine fever in Gorkha
More than 250 pigs have died of African swine fever in the district. The Veterinary Hospital and Livestock Service Centre informed that farmers lost more than 250 pigs due to the African swine fever that has taken toll for two months.
Chief of the Centre, Ananta Koirala, informed that farmer Rajkumar Shrestha from Gorkha Municipality-6 lost 80 pigs in his farm, while Juna Regmi from the same locality lost 10 cattle.
Total 60 pigs died in a farm belonging to Dhan Kumar Gurung of Mandredhunga within two weeks. The African swine flu has spread in the farms of Gorkha Municipality-6, 7 and 8 and Shahid Lakhan Rural Municipality-7. According to Koirala, it has been only about two months since the infection of this disease was detected in the district.
