53,000 poultry birds to be culled in Mohali

CHANDIGARH: Around 53,000 birds of two poultr y farms in Punjab's Mohali are to be culled af ter some samples from there testing positive for avian flu, a senior official said on Thursday. The reports of samples taken from two poultr y farms at Behra village in Dera Bassi in Mohali were received from the National Institute of High-Security Animal Diseases lab in Bhopal. "The culling of around 53,000 birds will either start today evening or tomorrow," said V K Janjua, Additional Chief Secretar y (Animal Husbandry and Dair y).