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Working Together to Keep the Nation’s Poultry Healthy!

November 16, 2018 Dr. Alan Huddleston, VMD, APHIS Avian, Swine & Aquatic Animal Health Center Director

Poultry owners all know how devastating a disease outbreak can be. Whether it’s a backyard farm with a few birds or a large commercial operation, losing your flock to disease causes more than just financial losses. That was never truer as we faced the Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI)...

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National Chicken Month – NASS Counts Chickens Before – and After – They Hatch

September 27, 2017 Kim Linonis, NASS Commodity Statistician, Poultry & Specialty Commodities Section

Did you know that Georgia poultry farmers produced the greatest number of chickens for meat (broilers) with 1.4 billion in 2016 followed by Alabama and Arkansas with just over 1 billion each? In all, the total value of U.S. broiler chicken production was $25.9 billion in 2016.

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