From a farmer friend in west-central Minnesota:
“Lots of chickens died this past year because of so-called avian flu. We lost most of our chickens but just before the chickens died there were planes flying around everyday which is abnormal. Then about a week later the chicken started to die, 3-4 per day for about 2 weeks. Finally about 70 bit the dust and 7 survived. Other people told us the same thing happened to them. One person from church at Mankato had chickens and her neighbors were losing theirs and so she just kept her chickens inside her coop and hers survived.
They say everything is contaminated for a few months but we had new chicks in the garage ready to go outside and we let them out right after the last big chicken died. We didn't lose any new chicks so you can tell this is not a flu but spraying activity to kill off chickens and raise your egg prices. Instant inflation.”