The Associated Press
WILMINGTON, Del. — The Delmarva peninsula's poultry industry is up and running after emerging from Superstorm Sandy relatively unscathed.
The Delaware Department of Agriculture said that there was no significant flooding or poultry house damage, and that chicken farmers are generally in good shape. Feed trucks are back on the road, and poultry processing plants resumed operations Oct. 31.
Bill Satterfield, executive director of Delmarva Poultry Industry Inc., said a farm on the lower Delmarva peninsula lost 80,000 two-week-old chickens to flooding, and that some chicken houses in the same area were still relying. . .
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