Avian flu hampers plans for the coming season
The knock-on effects of bird flu could have significant ramifications for shoots across the country. For some, the coming season will be severely curtailed, even cancelled, which could put their viability in question.
Supply chains of eggs from France for British shoots have been severely disrupted and in many cases halted because of measures put in place by the French authorities to contain the latest outbreak of bird flu.
In particular, the western departments of the Vendée and Loire-Atlantique, which are vital to the supply of eggs to the British gamebird industry, have been hampered by the lockdown. No eggs means no birds, which means no shoots.
James Robson, who runs the 3,000-acre Primrosehill pheasant and partridge shoot in the Lammermuir Hills in the Borders, said the
