Experts are warning commercial poultry producers and residents with backyard chickens to be on guard now that a virulent strain of avian influenza has reached Texas.
"Luckily, it was not in our commercial broiler or commercial egg-laying facilities here across the state. It was a much smaller operation that produces pheasants and game birds," said Tracy Tomascik,Commodity and Regulatory Activities associate director, in an interview with The Texas Newsroom.
"Our consumers aren't being hit very hard and we hope it stays that way. Our farmers are doing their very best to prevent something like that from occurring," Tomascik said, explaining the state’s commercial poultry producers, located primarily in East Texas, haveTexas A&M AgriLife Extension Service For that reason, he urged Texans tending their own flocks to take extra precautions during the current bird migration season.
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