OTTAWA — The Supreme Court of Canada is set to release its decision on whether to hear a B.C. ostrich farm's final appeal to save its flock, more than 10 months after the Canadian Food Inspection Agency ordered a cull amid an avian flu outbreak last December.

Universal Ostrich Farms in the southern Interior community of Edgewood, B.C., has already lost legal challenges in Federal Court and the Federal Court of Appeal, and the fate of the flock of 300 or so birds now hinges on the high court's decision.

The Supreme Court of Canada stayed the cull in September while it considered whether to hear the case, and if it decides not to, there would be no legal barrier against the agency carrying out the killings.

The court does not release reasons for dismissing or allowing a case, and legal ex

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