EDGEWOOD, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA - RCMP and the Canadian Food Inspection Agency are at an ostrich farm in Edgewood, B.C., where about 400 birds are expected to be culled over an outbreak of avian flu within the flock that began last year.

Here are five things to know about the situation at Universal Ostrich Farms.

1. The court fight.

The farm lost bids to save the birds in Federal Court and the Federal Court of Appeal, and has until Oct. 3 to make an application for leave to take the case to the Supreme Court of Canada. Federal Court of Appeal Justice Gerald Heckman ruled this month the cull must go ahead. He said the CFIA must be allowed to do its work, although he expressed sympathy to the farm's owners.

2. Why the farmers say the flock should not be killed.

The farmers say the fl

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