Owners of poultry in Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex get ready to keep them indoors to fight bird flu.
Rebecca Mayhew, from Old Hall Farm in Woodton, Norfolk, has 300 chickens roaming free.
"Wild birds are bringing this in and it's very reductionist thinking to think we can just keep locking birds down for months and months at a time - more than half the year - and not expect there to be a negative impact on animal welfare and nutrient density of what we're trying to produce, which is fantastic free-range eggs.
Alaistaire Brice is a commercial producer of free-range eggs to the East of England, London and Kent. "There are hundreds of wild birds being found dead... and no-one seems to be picking them up and disposing of them, so the disease is lying in our wildlife and... we're leaving that pool of virus in our natural environment to then infect more birds.
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