Boardman suspends small livestock permits to address bird flu

Boardman suspends small livestock permits to address bird flu

BOARDMAN, Ohio (WKBN) -- Boardman Township is currently not issuing small livestock permits until resolutions are updated to protect livestock from diseases like bird flu. Last week, Trustees adopted a resolution to allow the Zoning Commission to "research, consider and recommend language necessary to regulate small livestock," temporarily suspending the acceptance of permits for up to six chickens, rabbits, or similarly sized livestock. Directo…

498 thousand chickens have died from bird flu so far. Most of them were infected and died during March, in the large poultry farms of Durrës, which supply the market with meat and eggs. Bird flu......