Overview
- The revised order takes effect immediately, replacing the blanket housing mandate with targeted confinement for flocks over 1,000 countywide and over 50 in designated Edersee areas.
- Heightened biosecurity requirements and the ban on poultry-related events remain in force to reduce the risk of farm outbreaks.
- Poultry keepers must register their holdings with the county and the Hessian Animal Disease Fund, including small and non-commercial flocks.
- Authorities link early cases to three cranes at the Twistesee confirmed by the Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut and now report more sick and dead resident waterfowl in the lower Eder valley.
- Residents are asked to report sick or dead wild birds to the county veterinary office at 05631/9541753, and local media reported the culling of about 100 geese and ducks at an affected holding.