NEW maxims may be needed for Thai chicken farmers badly hit by the avian flu crisis: Birds of different feathers strew virus together. A bird in the pen isn’t worth two thousand in the pit. Count your chickens before they are culled.
With only Bt40 (about RM4) in compensation for each bird surrendered for the on-going chicken carnage, thousands of small-scale farmers are now facing certain penury.
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