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.

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