Martha's Vineyard backyard chicken flock depopulated as a result of bird flu

 

Headline:  MV Times, 3/6/2025

Eunki Seonwoo reports:

The Martha’s Vineyard Boards of Health announced on Thursday that the chickens from a “small, non-commercial backyard flock” on the Island tested positive for Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI). [emphasis daded]

Since the owner was not selling eggs or meat, no additional safety measures are required. “Four were confirmed positive and the remainder of the flock of 50 was depopulated as a safety measure,” Edgartown Health Agent Brice Boutot told the Times. 

The health department did not release the address of the backyard flock nor which town it was in.

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