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http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/tm_headline=bird-flu-cooks-xmas-goose-%26method=full%26objectid=18196079%26siteid=66633-name_page.html
CHRISTMAS is coming and there could be fat chance of finding a Scottish goose this season. 
Scotland's top geese farm have more than halved the number of birds they rear for the festive market because of fears over bird flu.
Highland Geese, based at the 400-acre Corranmor Farm in Ardfern in Argyll, have written to customers warning that there will be a shortage of geese this year.
Britain has seen just one case of the deadly H5N1 strain, in a dead swan found at Cellardyke in Fife in April.
But Scotland's goose producers have decided the risk of bird flu is too great, given that they face no compensation if they have to cull their birds, which are largely kept outdoors.
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Scotland's top geese farm have more than halved the number of birds they rear for the festive market because of fears over bird flu.
Highland Geese, based at the 400-acre Corranmor Farm in Ardfern in Argyll, have written to customers warning that there will be a shortage of geese this year.
Britain has seen just one case of the deadly H5N1 strain, in a dead swan found at Cellardyke in Fife in April.
But Scotland's goose producers have decided the risk of bird flu is too great, given that they face no compensation if they have to cull their birds, which are largely kept outdoors.
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