Two further business turkey farms had been hit by way of extremely pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI).
Consistent with the USA Division of Agriculture (USDA) Animal and Plant Well being Inspection Provider (APHIS) the bigger of the 2 farms was once in Steele County and concerned 48,100 meat turkeys. The opposite was once in Redwood County, and concerned 18,500 meat turkeys.
Each circumstances have been showed on November 9.
With those two new circumstances, Minnesota has now misplaced 95 business poultry flocks throughout the 2022-23 outbreak. Of the ones, 14 have been showed in 2023.
Alternatively, that is simplest the second one farm in Redwood County to had been affected throughout the previous two years and simplest the primary example of HPAI in Steele County.
Prior to those most up-to-date circumstances, the closing time HPAI was once showed in a business poultry flock in Minnesota was once November 3, when a business egg laying operation in Wright County with 940,000 hens was once affected.
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To be informed extra about HPAI circumstances in business poultry flocks in the USA, Mexico and Canada, see an interactive map on WATTPoultry.com.