OTTAWA — The British Columbia ostrich farm in a months-long legal battle to stop the Canadian Food Inspection Agency from destroying hundreds of its birds wants to further delay the cull as it seeks a hearing in Canada’s high court.

A lawyer for Universal Ostrich Farms in Edgewood, B.C., says in a letter filed in the Federal Court of Appeal on Thursday that the agency is “imminently” mobilizing to enforce a cull order issued in December after avian flu spread in the flock.

Court documents filed by the farm as it seeks a stay order say the agency has refused requests for an “administrative pause” on the cull, which will “irreversibly destroy a flock built over decades” and render any appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada moot.

The filings say the birds have been under quarantine supervis

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