This week, a major commercial form of western Ohio caught fire, which resided hundreds of thousands of poultry to lay eggs, causing another blow to a state egg industry that had already suffered the effects of the spread of AV influenza. It was
Fire and state officials did not specify how many birds were killed in the fire.
Ohio is one The largest egg farming According to the alliance of state farmers, states in the nation produce about 10 billion eggs a year. In 2022, the launch of Avian influenza in the United States has killed millions of eggs, killing chickens, which has increased prices and caused nationwide shortages.
Most of them Out of Western OhioIncluding in the Dark County, the place of fire.
Robert Cook, chief of the new Medicine Volunteer Fire Fire Department, said that the firefighters were deported to New Medicine Plots near New Paris, near the Indiana border, on Tuesday morning.
Chief Cook said in an interview, Firefighters from four counties in Ohio and two counties in Indiana were deployed by firefighters, while they were struggling to tap the natural water sources.
Around 1pm on Tuesday, at the time of the fire, it destroyed a main building with thousands of chickens.
“It was a complete loss,” he said.
Brian Baldridge, director of the Ohio Department of Agriculture, said on Friday that the warehouse where the fire was set on had a permit to place 280,000 plots. The plates are the girls who are raised until they are from 16 to 18 weeks, and then transferred to other facilities as egg laying. Mr Baldridge said he did not know how many were lost in the fire.
He said in an email, “This form is one of the largest of Ohio in which total plates are placed.”
Referring to a large number of birds, Mr Baldridge said the company had a permit to operate “animal feeding”. An employee of New Madison Plits refused to comment. Official statements were unclear how many other buildings were damaged in the form.
Dark County Sheriff, Mark Whitekar, said that Avian influenza is a “absolute” concern in his county and Mirsar County in the north, a home for the state’s largest poultry farms.
Sheriff Whitekar said, “The fire in the Ohio form is adding to the insult to the scene,” Sheriff Whitekar said. “We have millions of birds in this county.”
Sheriff Whiter, whose office sent a drone to help investigators during the fire, said they had “initial” information that the reason was not suspicious.
The Ohio State Fire Marshal’s office’s fire and explosion bureau is being investigated, a spokesman, Jarrod Clay, said in an email Thursday.
Mr Clay said, “The dollar is expected to decrease.
In 2022, Bird Flu moved to the United States in 2022 after detecting it in Canada. It has promoted the recent decrease of eggs, which has raised prices, has pointed to any progress affecting the supply and forced the Wafl House to add egg surcharge.
Until the first week of February, this year, 23 spreads of AV influenza were spreading this year in Arizona, California, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Missouri, Indiana and Washington, killing 21.1 million birds, killing 21.1 million birds, According to the US Department of Agriculture.
