Shots were heard at Universal Ostrich Farms in Edgewood, B.C., on Thursday evening, coming from a straw bale enclosure that the farm's flock had earlier been herded into.

Over a 30-minute period at 6:10 p.m. PT, CBC News reporters on the scene reported hearing about five rounds of about a dozen shots each.

It happened the same day the Supreme Court of Canada declined to hear an appeal to save the flock at Universal Ostrich from a cull ordered by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA).

That lifted any legal impediment to the killing of the flock that the CFIA says includes 300 to 330 birds.

For a full account of the story that unfolded at Universal Ostrich Farms after the country's top court declined to hear the farm's appeal, read CBC News' live coverage here .

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