Long Island’s last duck farm weighs closure after outbreak leads to killing of entire flock
Associated PressNEW YORK — New York’s Long Island was once synonymous with “duck” in the culinary world. The avian flu outbreak that has led to the slaughter of millions of birds at U.S. poultry farms and driven up the price of eggs struck the Crescent Duck Farm this week, leading federal officials to order the destruction of the operation’s entire flock. Crescent Duck Farm owner Doug Corwin, whose family has owned the roughly 140-acre property since the 1640s, said Friday that a multiday culling of about 100,000 birds has been completed at the now-quarantined site in Aquebogue. Crescent Duck Farm has been the island’s lone remaining operation for the better part of a decade, as higher operating costs, tougher regulations and increasing suburban sprawl have taken their toll. “The only way we’ve survived on Long Island is by making a duck that is different from our competition,” Corwin said.
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