About 20,000 birds on the family-run poultry farm have had to be culled
Mr Botterill said: "Most of them were for Christmas.
"We do so many a week to local customers, then the rest would have been for people all around here for their Christmas dinners.Mr Botterill said his flock was usually free to roam on grass fields and he suspected they caught the virus from visiting wild birds.It said the UK was dealing with its worst ever bird flu outbreak with over 200 cases confirmed in the last 12 months.
Turkey farmers have warned of a shortage this Christmas and The British Poultry Council said shoppers could be hit by price rises. Mr Botterill said he had been working in the industry all his life and had never known a situation like it before. He added the poultry farm would be back up and running as soon as they had government permission to do so.
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