Nearly 400 ostriches on the Universal Ostrich Farm in southern B.C. will be temporarily spared from slaughter while the Supreme Court of Canada decides whether to hear the farm owners’ appeal against the Canadian Food Inspection Agency cull order.

The court has granted a stay, which will prevent a cull from going forward until it decides whether it will grant the farm’s appeal application. If the appeal is heard, the stay will remain in place until a decision is finally rendered by the SCC justices, which could take more than six months .

Word of the SCC stay arrived on the farm, midday on Wednesday. Cheers went up from supporters as spokeswoman Katie Pasitney shared the news.

“Our lawyer called. The Supreme Court of Canada has granted us an interim stay,” she posted to her Faceboo

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