date:Jun 17, 2015
237 million - or nearly 3.3 per cent of the total. Not all of those birds were market flocks as we have heard anecdotal reports of several breeder flocks being impacted. Having a breakdown of turkey losses between market and breeder flocks would be helpful since the market flock losses will impact markets for six months or less but breeder losses may impact markets for a year or more.
There is still a lot of concern about what HPAI might do this fall. There is some talk that USDA is considering