1000’s of turkeys affected by chicken flu at Pennsylvania’s widespread Jaindle Farms

NORTH WHITEHALL TWP., PA (WPVI) — A well-liked Lehigh Valley turkey farm has been pressured to cull 1000’s of turkeys after chicken flu was discovered within the flock.

David Jaindl of Jaindl Farms in Orfield, Pa., says 14,000 turkeys had been affected.

In line with the USDA, the company that tracks instances, 21 business flocks have been affected in Pennsylvania.

Comparable outbreaks are occurring throughout the nation.

Earlier than the strike, Jaindl gave an interview the place he talked in regards to the flu and inflation.

“It is robust as a result of the product is proscribed throughout the nation, so you are going to see increased costs this 12 months,” Jaindl mentioned.

Authorities are organising a containment and surveillance zone across the farm to hopefully forestall the flu from spreading.

Lots of Jaindl’s Thanksgiving turkeys had been processed earlier than the outbreak, Jaindl mentioned.

Jaindl has provided turkey to the White Home prior to now.

“We’re assured we’ll have sufficient turkeys for Thanksgiving,” Jaindl mentioned.

Jaindl says chicken flu issues have reached 46 states and affected 50 million birds nationwide since February.

Chicken flu and inflation are driving up the price of turkeys throughout the nation.

USDA knowledge present a pointy enhance in the price of contemporary turkey after the 2015 chicken flu outbreak — and a good larger bounce after this 12 months’s outbreaks.

Poultry in Pennsylvania continues to face the specter of extremely pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI). The illness is very contagious to birds and is sort of all the time deadly, based on the state Division of Agriculture.

In line with the CDC, there have been no reviews of human instances of chicken flu in the US.