Two truck loads of chicken carcasses, eggs and litter from an Otago farm infected with bird flu have been taken to a landfill in Southland.

It's day two of the cull of 80,000 birds after some tested positive for the highly contagious H7N6 strain of avian influenza at the Moeraki free range farm managed by Mainland poultry.

MPI is waiting on results from a thousand samples taken from half a dozen farms of interest.

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