A wall of hay bales about three metres tall is being constructed at a British Columbia farm where the Canadian Food Inspection Agency is organizing the cull and disposal of about 400 ostriches after an outbreak of avian flu in the herd.

Several tractor trailers loaded high with the hay rolled onto Universal Ostrich farms on Tuesday, not long after two key people in the movement to stop the animals from being killed were arrested.

Several of the ostriches could be seen grazing inside the wall, where four people wearing head-to-toe white protective suits could be seen from the highway near the farm.

Officials have not confirmed why the wall is being built or when the cull will happen.

RCMP earlier moved into the farm’s ostrich enclosure where farm spokeswoman Katie Pasitney and her mothe

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