TOLEDO, Ohio — An outbreak of bird flu that has led to the deaths of 43 million chickens and turkeys this year across the U.S. has been found at a giant egg-laying operation in Ohio, state and federal agriculture officials said Wednesday. The case confirmed over the weekend in Ohio’s Defiance County has affected roughly 3 million chickens, according to …
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Two million chickens will be killed in Delaware and Maryland and not processed for meat because staff are calling out sick amid coronavirus. The Delmarva Poultry Industry said that every poultry plant on the Delmarva Peninsula has struggled with a reduced worker attendance. The Delmarva Peninsula includes parts of Delaware, Maryland and Virginia It said the company was unable to …