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Officials in Arizona have declared an animal disease emergency over the bird flu. The President of Hickman’s Family Farms ...
State agriculture officials were on site at the massive Hickman’s egg production plant in the west Valley Monday, where six ...
Will the deaths of chickens to avian flu affect the availability of eggs and raise prices? Glenn Hickman said he doesn't ...
Buckeye-headquartered Hickman’s Family Farms calls itself the largest egg company in the Southwest. At a press conference ...
A West Valley farm and one of the largest egg producers in the U.S. confirmed on Friday that it has lost nearly its entire ...
The bird flu virus remains a wild card that continues to threaten U.S. poultry and egg supplies while upping the ante with risk to human health.
The Arizona company will not be able to meet 100% of customer demand and expects to cut hundreds of jobs, company leader ...
How dangerous is it? Where did it come from? H5N1 influenza’s origins stretch back to the 1990s, and key events paved the way ...
Anyone with direct or close exposure to well-appearing, sick or dead birds, poultry or backyard flocks or any other animals known or suspected to be infected with bird flu or their contaminated ...
When a poultry farm tests positive for bird flu, the clock starts. Within the first 72 hours, farmers start depopulating, an industry term for killing contaminated flocks. Despite the sweltering ...
The concern to control bird flu remains a 24-hour ... to prevent the virus from moving from one touch point to another. Poultry producers and backyard flock owners who notice sick or dead domestic ...