Scotland will not follow England and order all poultry and captive birds indoors, says chief vet.
Ms Voas added that keeping birds indoors should not be seen as a "silver bullet" for tackling bird flu and that other measures, such as keeping feeding and bedding away from wild birds, were also effective.
In July, Scottish government agency NatureScot announced it was setting up a taskforce to respond to bird flu.The move followed outbreaks over the spring and summer among wild bird populations around Scotland's coast.Craig Michie, who owns the Barra Bronzes turkey farm in Inverurie, told BBC Scotland that most breeders were already keeping their birds indoors because of the avian flu outbreak.
He said: "We're about the last producer in the country to shut our birds in. With the migration of wild birds now, thousands of geese flying over the farm, the risk is massive. "It is a massive worry. With very little compensation on offer what it could do to your business is just devastating.Mr Michie said his birds were worth between £100 and £150 each but the available government compensation for a cull was a fraction of this.
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