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Bird flu 2022: Crews dispose of nearly 3M flu-stricken chickens from Wisconsin farm

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DES MOINES, Iowa — A mass hen disposal is underway at an egg farm in Jefferson County, Wisconsin.

Crews loaded wheelbarrows filled with useless chickens into dump vans to be taken off-site from the Chilly Spring Egg Farm.

State and federal officers are attempting to include an outbreak of extremely contagious fowl flu on the farm.

Chicken flu: Almost 12.6M chickens, turkeys in at the least 8 states killed or will likely be destroyed quickly

Almost three-million chickens are being destroyed.

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The useless birds are being taken to a area — owned by the identical farm — eight miles away to be composted.

The state says composting is probably the most environment friendly and environmentally accountable technique of disposal.

SEE ALSO | Chicken flu confirmed in yard flock in central Illinois; comparable infections reported throughout US

The fowl flu is of low danger to people, however a excessive danger to the poultry trade.

A 2015 outbreak precipitated greater than $650 billion in losses.

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