Aaron Rice stands in a field at Jodar Farms with his chickens around him.
“It’s definitely something that we’re aware of, concerned about,” he said about the bird flu or avian flu that has moved into Colorado.
“We’re raising chickens a little differently. The densities are a little lower, so maybe there’s a chance if it does show up here that it wouldn’t spread.”“Larger egg operations or broiler operations, they’re going to be confined in a big barn and the densities inside those barns you know are pretty tight.”
That’s why the virus has been hard to stop. In 2014 and 2015 it spread, leading the deaths of 50 million commercially raised chickens and turkeys in the U.S. It a rapid killer. Most dangerous in big operations with large hen houses that can house hundreds of thousands of birds says Dr. Pabilonia. “If you do pick this up, it’s about a 95 % death rate. Happens over three to five days. Then if anything were to survive, the USDA would euthanize the remainder of the flock,” said Rice.
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