Karen Espersen, right, the co-owner of Universal Ostrich Farms, speaks with supporters with her daughter, Katie Pasitney, at the farm in Edgewood, B.C., on Monday, Sept. 22, 2025, as the ɫtv Food Agency prepares to cull 400 of the farm’s ostriches this week. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Aaron Hemens
Karen Espersen, centre, the co-owner of Universal Ostrich Farms, speaks with supporters with her daughter, Katie Pasitney, at the farm in Edgewood, B.C., on Monday, Sept. 22, 2025, as the ɫtv Food Agency prepares to cull 400 of the farm’s ostriches this week. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Aaron Hemens
Police tape surrounds an area where ostriches are penned in at the Universal Ostrich Farms property in Edgewood, B.C., Monday, Sept. 22, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Brenna Owen
Karen Espersen, right, the co-owner of Universal Ostrich Farms, speaks with supporters with her daughter, Katie Pasitney, at the farm in Edgewood, B.C., on Monday, Sept. 22, 2025, as the ɫtv Food Agency prepares to cull 400 of the farm’s ostriches this week. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Aaron Hemens
Karen Espersen, centre, the co-owner of Universal Ostrich Farms, speaks with supporters with her daughter, Katie Pasitney, at the farm in Edgewood, B.C., on Monday, Sept. 22, 2025, as the ɫtv Food Agency prepares to cull 400 of the farm’s ostriches this week. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Aaron Hemens
Police tape lines the perimeter of the Universal Ostrich Farms in Edgewood, B.C., on Monday, Sept. 22, 2025, as the ɫtv Food Agency prepares to cull 400 of the farm’s ostriches this week. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Aaron Hemens
Protest signs are seen on an idle vehicle at the Universal Ostrich Farms in Edgewood, B.C., on Monday, Sept. 22, 2025, as the ɫtv Food Agency prepares to cull 400 of the farm’s ostriches this week. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Aaron Hemens
The owners of an ostrich farm whose flock is subject to a cull order must leave today or face removal by police, who were called in to help support the ɫtv Food Inspection Agency.
RCMP and CFIA officials arrived on the farm Monday and served a warrant on the farm in southeastern British Columbia, where the owners have been fighting the cull order prompted by an outbreak of avian influenza that killed 69 ostriches.
Katie Pasitney, whose mother is a co-owner of Universal Ostrich Farms, posted a video to her Facebook page Monday evening showing a CFIA official telling the farmers they would be allowed to stay in the birds' pen overnight.
Here are some scenes from the farm as supporters protested the cull.
This report by ɫtvwas first published Sept. 23, 2025.
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