(Reuters) -Canada’s government will cull more than 300 ostriches at a farm in British Colombia, where some birds were infected with avian flu, after the country’s highest court on Thursday declined to hear arguments to spare them.

The Universal Ostrich Farms in Edgewood argued its birds survived an original infection, detected in December 2024, and had become immune to the avian flu.

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) late last year ordered the ostriches to be killed — standard procedure for commercial flocks infected with bird flu. On Thursday, the agency said it would move forward with the cull.

The farm’s struggle has attracted many supporters, including U.S. President Donald Trump’s Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Some members of the former “F

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