Sandrine Prioul, edited by Juline Garnier 11:33 a.m., April 09, 2022

The war in Ukraine has an impact on the purchasing power of the French but it is not the only one.

Avian flu is increasing the concern of producers.

In Vendée, almost all the poultry have been slaughtered and the production of new farms has stopped, transforming this epidemic into a major crisis.

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Faced with avian flu, the concern of producers is growing.

In Vendée, almost all the poultry have been slaughtered and the production of new farms is at a standstill.

Between the repercussions of the war and the worry of seeing the return of this flu almost everywhere, farmers are not really in high spirits.

"We are in a crisis that has never been known. We must be aware of that", saddens Sarah, breeder from Vendée.

With her 300 chickens in the last short circuit breeding building, she is the only survivor of a wave of slaughter of more than 15 million poultry among her neighbors.

A situation described as uncontrollable 

"Today, we find ourselves faced with an uncontrollable situation. When the virus manages to enter a building, all the poultry are very quickly contaminated and therefore we have to treat them very quickly too. Except that unfortunately, we don't cannot afford it", explains the breeder of Saint-Mesmin.

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At the microphone of Europe 1, she recounts the trauma of these surrounding breeders condemned to kill themselves, then get rid of their livestock in an archaic way.

"So, indeed, we are not going to find poultry at the price at which we found it in supermarkets. Afterwards, the question that must be asked is 'doesn't it rather be in our rethink our model of poultry farming?'

For me, this breeding model is coming to an end."

Questions that are all the more well-founded, underlines the breeder, as poultry in short circuit, she says, are "much more resilient than chickens in battery".