Niger had pledged to pay 1,000 CFA francs (1.5 euros) per chicken in case of mass slaughter but poultry farmers say the sum is peanuts.
"It's largely inadequate and unfair. Any poultry expert will tell you that it costs at least 4,000 CFA francs (more than six euros) to raise a chicken until it starts bringing in profits," said Harouna Labo, one of Niger's largest poultry farmers.
A chicken seller in the Niger town of Maradi was more explicit.
"Whoever wants to kill my chickens has to do so over my dead body," said Almou Abdou.
Full story AFP at Yahoo News 23 Feb 2006.
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