What do rancher's do with chickens culled from the bird flu?

I grew up on a chicken farm and we had an underground pit with a metal cover that chickens who died were thrown into. Note that this was a very small farm so factory farms may do things differently.

They kill the entire flock to stop the spread.

“Some 24 million poultry birds like chicken and turkeys have already been lost, either because they died from the virus or were killed to prevent its spread. But unlike a similar bird flu outbreak seven years ago, this one is unlikely to just burn itself out”

https://www.npr.org/2022/04/09/1091491202/bird-flu-2022-avian-influenza-poultry-farms

@Tropical_Willie Yes, but what is done with the dead chickens, ducks and turkey’s?

They dig a pit then bury them !

They let them compost in the ground.

I thought they marked the price down and sold them to KFC.

They kill them and take them away.

Makes me kinda sad to think of. :(

We had one local farm kill and buried over 50,000 birds.

If they don’t bury them in a hole themselves, they take them to the landfill, like all the dogs and cats that get euthanized at the animal shelter.

Same here @smudges.