Canberra Queanbeyan Poultry Show cancelled for 2024

Canberra Queanbeyan Poultry Show has been cancelled for 2024 due to bird flu outbreak

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00:00I'm Dave Thistleden and I'm the president of the Canberra Caribbean Poultry Club.

00:06Last year we had over 600 birds to our show with the local fanciers,

00:13but it's just too much of a risk to have a show at this time

00:19because there's some of our members that have over 50 years of breeding in their birds

00:24and we just don't want to risk them.

00:26If the flu got in it, it'd be devastation.

00:29You wouldn't be able to get these back into Australia

00:33because a lot of them are in Victoria already

00:39and it's just very, very hard to source them now

00:43and if we had my flock wiped out it'd be just devastating

00:47and we wouldn't be able to replace them.

00:50These chooks mean the life to me.

00:54To be able to take a rare breed that's come into Australia in 2015

01:00and keep working on them.

01:02They've still got to get a little bigger yet,

01:04but we're just working on them

01:06and it's great to get a rare breed up and running in Australia.

01:10We love what we do.

01:14We just love what we do.