{"id":32917,"date":"2024-04-04T13:03:50","date_gmt":"2024-04-04T17:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=32917"},"modified":"2024-04-04T13:13:57","modified_gmt":"2024-04-04T17:13:57","slug":"bird-flu-has-been-detected-at-the-largest-chicken-egg-manufacturer-in-the-u-s-npr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=32917","title":{"rendered":"Bird flu has been detected at the largest chicken egg manufacturer in the U.S. : NPR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/ap24093736339313-1-_custom-9d3db25061755c94aa8e60d56348480939059e04-s1100-c50.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"301\" height=\"200\"><span style=\"font-size: inherit;\">The company says it &#8220;depopulated&#8221; about 1.6 million laying hens and 337,000 pullets, or about 3.6% of its flock, as a result of the outbreak.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2024\/04\/03\/1242445372\/bird-flu-chicken-eggs\">Bird flu has been detected at the largest chicken egg manufacturer in the U.S. : NPR<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;depopulated&#8221; is NPR-speak for &#8220;killed&#8221;?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;The company says it &#8220;depopulated&#8221; about 1.6 million laying hens and 337,000 pullets, or about 3.6% of its flock, as a result of the outbreak.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>an interesting Fark comment:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/bird-flu-eggs-texas-2024-04-04_13-04-58.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"264\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/bird-flu-eggs-texas-2024-04-04_13-04-58-1024x264.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-32922\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/bird-flu-eggs-texas-2024-04-04_13-04-58-1024x264.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/bird-flu-eggs-texas-2024-04-04_13-04-58-300x77.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/bird-flu-eggs-texas-2024-04-04_13-04-58-768x198.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/bird-flu-eggs-texas-2024-04-04_13-04-58-750x193.jpg 750w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/bird-flu-eggs-texas-2024-04-04_13-04-58-1226x316.jpg 1226w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/bird-flu-eggs-texas-2024-04-04_13-04-58-675x174.jpg 675w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/bird-flu-eggs-texas-2024-04-04_13-04-58.jpg 1381w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>If hens lay an egg every 26 hours, is the light cycle set to 26 hours?  or maybe it doesn&#8217;t matter? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>i wonder how many <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=32924\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">George the Chicken man had?  I seem to recall 10k \/ floor, so 40k when I was a teen<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The company says it &#8220;depopulated&#8221; about 1.6 million laying hens and 337,000&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[1191,1266,513,21],"class_list":["post-32917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-chickens","tag-eggs","tag-texas","tag-uh-oh","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32917"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32927,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32917\/revisions\/32927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}