EasternIowaFarmer_Fall2022

FOR THE BIRDS
“Contact, including ingestion, with either respiratory
secretions or feces can result in the spread.”
Most of the cases reported in the state this year
were in the western
and central part of
the state, where some
larger commercial operations
are housed.
And while there were
“When visitors come
to our farm, they
are not allowed
inside the coop.”
— ABE VICKERS
not reported cases
in Eastern Iowa,
restrictions were
implemented across
Iowa. The ban on live
bird exhibitions was
lifted on June 3 by
the state’s agriculture
department.
The impact of the
flu was one factor in
a major price increase
in chick this year. But even with the added cost, 4-H
and FFA members across the area are happy they
could show their animals at the fair this year.
EASTERN IOWA FARMER PHOTO / JACKIE MILLER
Dillion Beck of Spragueville is both a chicken farmer and hunting enthusiast and
says that both things have been impacted because of the bird flu.
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