BUCKEYE, Ariz. — In the past few weeks highly pathogenic avian influenza has been wreaking havoc on commercial table egg layer flocks in Arizona. Hickman’s Family Farms announces that the virus has claimed 95 percent of its hens in Arizona, which amounts to approximately 6 million birds.
“This devastating turn of events means the loss of life for the hens, the loss of jobs for hundreds of employees, and the loss of an invaluable food resource both locally, and far beyond the Valley,” Glenn Hickman, Hickman’s Family Farms president, said in a statement.
With this outbreak, Hickman is advocating. . .
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