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Game bird farm in Kossuth County has avian flu [1]

['Jared Strong', 'More From Author', '- November']

Date: 2023-11

A Kossuth County farm with pheasants, peafowl and egg-laying hens is the ninth site in Iowa this fall to be affected by a quick-spreading avian influenza, according to the Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship.

The virus was recently detected at a farm with about 8,400 game bird pheasants, 160 commercial layer chickens and 16 peafowl. Entire flocks are culled to prevent the spread of the disease.

Highly pathogenic avian influenza is often transmitted by migrating birds, which can be asymptomatic. The virus is often deadly for domestic birds.

The nine affected Iowa flocks this fall had a total of about 170,000 birds.

Detections this year have been more frequent than fall 2022, but total birds have been much smaller because the virus has not been found in a large egg-laying facility. About 2.5 million birds were culled in Iowa last fall.

The other detections this fall include:

— Nov. 3: A commercial chicken breeding facility in Hamilton County with about 15,000 birds.

— Nov. 3: A duck farm with a backyard mixed species flock in Clay County with about 7,361 birds.

— Nov. 3: A duck farm in Clay County with about 8,270 birds.

— Nov. 3: A duck farm in Clay County with about 1,700 birds.

— Oct. 31: A commercial turkey flock in Buena Vista County with about 30,000 birds.

— Oct. 23: A commercial turkey flock in Pocahontas County with about 47,500 birds.

— Oct. 23: A backyard flock in Guthrie County with about 50 birds.

— Oct. 20: A commercial turkey flock in Buena Vista County with about 50,000 birds.

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