@gfm7175 @Into the Night
Man, someone should have told this
farm owner to just "notice the sick hen" and separated it from the rest. He could have saved his flock...AmIright? (derp derp derp)
The owners first noticed that 30 of them died, but that happened as temperatures dropped aggressively in the area, so they thought it was just environmental.
"It was right when the temperate started changing so we were like maybe it's environmental, then next day hundreds were gone, and we're like, this is something," owner Marty Thomas said
Bird flu strikes chicken farm in Matteson: 'A pretty devastating blow'
MATTESON, Ill. (WLS) -- The first known outbreak of bird flu at a farm in Illinois this year has been reported in the south suburbs.
It's a devastating blow to "Kakadoodle" in Matteson, and they will now have to operate in a different way over the next 150 days. The owners told ABC7 it's been a whirlwind of a week dealing with the setback.
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Just one week ago, everything seemed normal in the henhouse. They had 3,000 hens, and now none of them are left.
The owners first noticed that 30 of them died, but that happened as temperatures dropped aggressively in the area, so they thought it was just environmental.
"It was right when the temperate started changing so we were like maybe it's environmental, then next day hundreds were gone, and we're like, this is something," owner Marty Thomas said.
The first known outbreak of bird flu at a farm in Illinois this year has been reported in the south suburbs. The owners told ABC7 it's been a whirlwind of a week dealing with the setback after 3,000 of their hens died.
abc7chicago.com