Last week, eleven outbreaks were confirmed in farms in the Gers department. Foie gras professionals are all the more surprised that, generally, avian flu epidemics occur in winter, not spring.
The fact that farms are full, with the desire of producers to stock up after a bad year 2022, is likely to explain the multiplication of outbreaks in this month of May. Between November 2022 and April 2023, some 6 million poultry were slaughtered in France. By comparison, 22 million poultry are slaughtered in 2021-2022.