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Headline: BBC, 2/21/2025
Madeline Halpert reports:
For Brian Kreher, a fourth-generation farmer in the small town of Clarence, New York, the latest outbreak of bird flu has meant many sleepless nights.
He considers his 18-acre farm one of the lucky ones. With extensive safety precautions, he hasn't lost any birds to the virus, which has ravaged poultry farms across the US.
But the outbreak forced him to make tough calls, like deciding whether to accept a new batch of baby chicks from a hatchery near a virus hotspot in Pennsylvania. If he didn't, he would have no chickens to replace those that die or get sick.
"I had no choice," Kreher told the BBC. "It was either accept those baby chicks, or over the next year, we slowly exit farming."\
"Egg farmers are in the fight of our lives and we are losing," he said.
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