At the Gabadi farm, chickens are raised and the authorities have banned them from marketing their eggs. Instead, they breed ducks in Uhartia in Barkox and Easter in Dominchin, whose owner, Jean-Michel Berho, is a well-known reference for the alternative of permanent breeding of the local breeds. In fact, farmers sell that government-sponsored industrial duck farms are responsible for the repeated spread of the flu, but that the measures implemented to control the disease strike just small, sustainable farms.

Farmers approaching from all over the North last weekend, accompanied by local and other elected officials, confronted government representatives and prevented the killing of animals. But, as the OECD has reported, “the administration soon finds it hard to convince the three breeders in Pau in the early afternoon, not to negotiate a way out, but to say that there should be no more cabal in the three farms for every one of the weeks. If the breeders themselves don’t have a way out, the administration will come back to clean the edges!”

In these hours there is a tense atmosphere between small farmers and the authorities. The OECD has communicated a clear message to them: “If the administration wants litigation, there will be hundreds present at the height of the courts. If you want to economically kill the three breeders by imposing unbearable fines and expenses on the analisa, know that solidarity boxes are beginning to be filled. As in the last three weeks, we asked for a negotiated way out for the three breeders to hunt down their healthy calves, appropriate care for their health needs.”