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Mr. Mackie
asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, what estimate he has made of the number of flocks that have become infected with fowl pest which were not vaccinated with dead vaccine.
Mr. Anthony Stodart
Flocks were not vaccinated or were only partly vaccinated in 2,157 cases out of the 2,370 confirmed outbreaks in the period 24th August to 3rd December.
Mr. Mark Hughes
asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what estimate he has now made of the effect on egg production of the present outbreak of fowl pest.
Mr. Anthony Stodart
It is difficult to estimate the effect so far of the fowl pest outbreak on production but it appears to be small.