300 ostriches shot dead by firing squad on Canadian farm after bird flu allegations

Three hundred ostriches were shot dead by a firing squad in Canada late Thursday — ending a months-long standoff that drew in US Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and New York billionaire John Catsimatidis, who had begged officials to spare the birds.

The mass killing unfolded at Universal Ostrich Farms in Edgewood, British Columbia, hours after the Supreme Court of Canada refused to block a federal order to cull the flock following an avian flu outbreak, CBC reported.

Canada apparently snubbed its neighbor to the south by refusing to spare the giant birds be used for research purposes.

“That’s a real f–k you to everyone in the United States,” Catsimatidis said told The Post last month.

“Something smells.”

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency ordered the culling to curb the spread of the avian flu after an outbreak at the farm last winter killed 69 ostriches.

But a spokeswoman for the farm has insisted that the rest of the flock remained healthy.