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Avian influenza H5N2 in the Mississippi and Pacific Flyways

10,000 Birds

This mainly affects domestic fowl, and in this sense is not a topic central to 10,000 Birds. Close to 5% of turkeys being farmed in Minnesota have been or shortly will be destroyed , and the virus is also affecting chickens. What is H5N2 Avian Influenza? H5N2 is a bird influenza virus that is making news.

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La Vieille Ferme: Rouge (2016)

10,000 Birds

And that’s not all: I’m even relaxing my unwritten prohibition against featuring domestic fowl. But is there a bird more emblematic of France than the humble – yet decidedly exotic – farmyard chicken? A literal case of the proverbial chickens coming home to roost, perhaps, but the result was the same.

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