capacity of about 15,000 birds. The farm was established more
than twenty five years ago outside the city of Al-Ain in Abu
Dhabi Emirate. The city growth rate was vast enough to surround
the originally isolate remote farm with houses. In 2002 the distance
between the closest house and the farm was 630 m. This distance
shrunk to 500, 360 and 300 m in 2003, 2005 and 2010, respectively.