Updated: Jun 5, 2025 / 06:49 PM CDT MATTESON, Ill. (WGN) – A farm in Matteson is bringing chickens back to their property now that a 120-day quarantine caused by the bird flu has been lifted.

Avian flu may affect many kinds of birds, but chickens are particularly susceptible. A dime-sized blob of chicken poop can kill all 300,000 chickens in a commercial coop, Barkley said.

At the same time, Hickman's Egg Ranch, which is Arizona's largest egg producer and one of the nation's top 20 producers, has had to destroy the chickens at three of its four farms due to the bird flu.

In February this year, an outbreak of bird flu or avian influenza was reported from Pipili area of Puri prompting the authorities to cull more than 11,700 chickens after detecting the H5N1 strain ...

Arizona's largest egg producer, Hickman's Egg Ranch, has a third Maricopa County farm infected with bird flu, losing 95% of its chickens. This leaves them with just one uninfected farm left in ...

An avian flu outbreak has killed or forced the euthanasia of 95% of Hickman’s Family Farms’ Arizona hen population, totaling about 6 million dead birds in the past two weeks, Glenn Hickman ...

Chickens are not routinely vaccinated against bird flu. Hickman pointed squarely at the meat bird industry’s lobbying efforts against an avian flu vaccine for the nationwide outbreak.

BUCKEYE, Ariz. (KPHO /Gray News) — An Arizona farm and one of the largest egg producers in the U.S. confirmed on Friday that it has lost nearly its entire chicken population in the state ...

She recently released a paper reviewing bird flu in infections in cats between 2004 and 2024. Barn cats that died after drinking raw milk were one of the first signs that dairy cows were becoming ...

BUCKEYE, Ariz. (KPHO /Gray News) — An Arizona farm and one of the largest egg producers in the U.S. confirmed on Friday that it has lost nearly its entire chicken population in the state ...

BUCKEYE, Ariz. (KPHO /Gray News) — An Arizona farm and one of the largest egg producers in the U.S. confirmed on Friday that it has lost nearly its entire chicken population in the state ...

BUCKEYE, Ariz. (KPHO /Gray News) — An Arizona farm and one of the largest egg producers in the U.S. confirmed on Friday that it has lost nearly its entire chicken population in the state. According to ...