Culls

Highly pathogenic avian influenza is called that because it spreads rapidly in flocks of domestic poultry, often requiring massive culls to control the contagions.

Loyal Wooldridge said he was concerned the project, covering 670 acres of land, would damage the environment and lead to deer culls.

Which means,” she said, “that if you hate something as much as you hate mosquitoes, your hate is 10 culls.

Animal campaigners say approximately 40% of those killed are shot for sport shooting, and 50% as part of organised culls.

A spokesperson said: ‘We acknowledge there is significant public concern about mountain hare culls on grouse moors.

In the fourth book citation of Endymion (1818), John Keats writes: The spirit culls Unfaded amaranth, when wild it strays Through the old garden-ground of boyish days.