A co-owner of the B.C. ostrich farm fighting to stop a cull of its 400-strong flock says the Canadian Food Inspection Agency is "actively mobilizing" to destroy the birds over the next few days, and is pleading with the Federal Court of Appeal in Ottawa for another stay of execution.

Universal Ostrich Farms in Edgewood, B.C., has been attempting to stop the agency from destroying the birds since the cull was ordered amid an avian flu outbreak in December that would go on to kill 69 ostriches.

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