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Renville chicken farm suffers Minnesota's worst bird-flu toll
A Renville operation must destroy 2 million chickens.
By Liz Sawyer Star Tribune MAY 16, 2015 ? 7:02PM
The bird flu has struck another Rembrandt Enterprises farm, marking the state?s single largest outbreak of the deadly virus. Two million egg-laying chickens will be destroyed over the next four weeks at the company?s Renville operation, officials said Saturday.
One barn holding around 200,000 birds was infected, but the entire flock will be killed as a precaution.
Chickens at the farm have tested ?presumptive positive? for the disease ?despite the herculean efforts of Rembrandt?s employees to keep our facilities virus-fee,? said Jonathan Spurway, the company?s vice president of marketing.
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?We?re doing everything we possibly can [to protect flocks], and we don?t know of anyone who?s doing anything we?re not already doing,? ?Spurway said. ?The industry is lost for words.?
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http://www.startribune.com/renville-chicken-farm-suffers-minnesota-s-worst-bird-flu-toll/304011571/
A Renville operation must destroy 2 million chickens.
By Liz Sawyer Star Tribune MAY 16, 2015 ? 7:02PM
The bird flu has struck another Rembrandt Enterprises farm, marking the state?s single largest outbreak of the deadly virus. Two million egg-laying chickens will be destroyed over the next four weeks at the company?s Renville operation, officials said Saturday.
One barn holding around 200,000 birds was infected, but the entire flock will be killed as a precaution.
Chickens at the farm have tested ?presumptive positive? for the disease ?despite the herculean efforts of Rembrandt?s employees to keep our facilities virus-fee,? said Jonathan Spurway, the company?s vice president of marketing.
...
?We?re doing everything we possibly can [to protect flocks], and we don?t know of anyone who?s doing anything we?re not already doing,? ?Spurway said. ?The industry is lost for words.?
...
http://www.startribune.com/renville-chicken-farm-suffers-minnesota-s-worst-bird-flu-toll/304011571/