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"a" flock, the article says. One farm with millions of chickens?
That's bananas
No, the article makes it quite clear that they are chickens, not bananas, despite being yellow, they are both quite different
Yeah, each broiler house can hold ~20-50k chickens (depending on size). A few million chickens is a pretty large operation. Most farms around here have about 20 houses max.
...why is the place where chickens are raised and kept called a "broiler" house?
Meat chickens are called broilers, and egg chickens are called layers. Since they have been selectively bred for each specific purpose
Dang, thanks. That's boggling
Did you ni?otice it says 'farm'? Not 'farms'?
4 million chicken in ONE farm...!
It's the American way. And it sucks.
I'm sure any and all chicken producers will use it as an excuse to keep increasing prices.
Those two don't have to exclude each other! Think of the profits!!
Y’know eating less meat will help save the planet.
Because the water, power, and pollution expended would be less.
Aw come on, that's a lot of wings, if we promise to cook them well, can you drop off some to my house?
The Dispatch reported that the entire flock will be culled, with the remains isolated, to help prevent further spread.
Kind of unfortunate that they can't figure out which ones got sick and cull just those. Would be nice to move towards chickens that are more-resistant to the flu, but that can't happen unless the vulnerable ones are selected against in terms of survival. An across-the-board cull doesn't do that.
Do we know the infection transmission method of this virus? Presumably if they knew they wouldn’t have to cull the whole facility right?
It's the flu, a respiratory disease.
There may be other vectors (like raw milk), but airborne is going to be the main route for birds.
Might be the case that some places have multiple buildings and can keep some chickens away from others. I don't know whether that's enough isolation.
A study completed just recently shows that raw milk is infectious, at least in mice. HTST (high temperature, short time--this is the most common method used in the US but not most of the world) pasteurization mostly neutralized the virus but not entirely. Batch pasteurization neutralized it. Just FYI.
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