The highly infectious H5N1 strain has caused outbreaks across the country. Now, Long Island’s last duck farm must kill its entire flock and may go out of business, its owner said.
Crescent Duck Farm in Aquebogue will have to euthanize every bird at the facility after H5N1 bird flu was confirmed in the flock.
The farm is a top supplier of duck for high-end restaurants, including eateries on Long Island and in New York City.
The owner of the Crescent Duck Farm in Aquebogue, N.Y., has been forced to euthanize its flock of more than 100,000 ducks due to positive bird flu tests.
The Crescent Duck Farm on Long Island’s north fork is 117 years old, the last of the island’s duck farms — a region that was once the duck capital of the country — and the supplier that many of the ...
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Despite the havoc it is wreaking on the farm, health officials say the risk of the public getting sick is minimal.
Approximately 99,000 birds needed to be euthanized as an outbreak of H5N1 bird flu has infected its way through Long Island’s ...
Established in 1908, the Aquebogue site is the last commercial duck farm on Long Island, once world-renowned for its ducks.