“I don't have anything coming in anymore, apart from the sale of a few jars of rillettes”.

Samuel Thévenet, poultry farmer in La Beillère, a village of less than 100 inhabitants near Forges-les-Eaux (Seine-Maritime), calls for help, relayed by

Paris Normandie

.

The poultry farm was affected by the bird flu epidemic.

His flock of more than 500 poultry was euthanized.

Two other cases of highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 have been confirmed since the beginning of the year in the department, indicates the prefecture: in a farmyard in Grainville-La-Teinturière between Fécamp and Saint-Valery-en-Caux and in Rouvray-Catillon, also near Forges-les-Eaux.

"In total, according to the prefecture, between 900 and 1,000 poultry were slaughtered by state services in the department," says

France Bleu

.

Samuel Thévenet, 46, calls for generosity and has launched a solidarity kitty to try to resume his activity.

At the end of January, he had noticed an abnormal mortality among his geese, he tells

Paris Normandy

.

Subsequent autopsies confirmed the presence of the virus.

“20 to 25 people in cosmonaut outfits”

And what followed was "heartbreaking", he explains, in particular because he made it easier for the veterinary services - "20 to 25 people in spacesuits" - by baiting his ducks before they not be killed.

The professional, who raises old and local poultry - "Gournay hens, Norman geese and Duclair ducks, regional breeds which are now the subject of a safeguard plan by the Conservatoire des races Normandes and the Maine”, explains

France 3 Normandy

– will be compensated, but he “does not know when, or how much he will receive”.

In the meantime, concern is spreading among breeders.

Poultry must be kept indoors or in a place protected by a net to prevent any contact with a wild bird, insists the prefecture.

According to

France Bleu

, 300 poultry farms are listed in the department.

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