Poultry competition cancelled due to bird flu surge

As an elder statesman of poultry-fancying, Alf Woods is mentoring someone in the craft, and you could say his protege is a chick off the old block.

Woods, who has been a poultry competitor for almost 90 years, is cock-a-hoop that his 10-year-old great-grandson, Blair, is egg-cited by the hobby.

“It’s a passing of the baton to a younger person, and...