100,000 chickens die in egg farm fire in Connecticut

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BOZRAH, Conn. (WFSB) - Crews battled a massive 3-alarm fire at an egg farm in Bozrah.

Officials said the fire was at Hillandale Farms on Schwartz Road.

Officials say a 400′x50′ chicken coop was lost, but another 13 chicken coops were saved during the fire.

The Salvation Army Canteen One is on the scene providing Grilled Cheese and soup.

Around 100,000 chickens may have died in the fire, according to the Salvation Army.

In total, 21 fire departments responded to the fire. Firefighters were on scene for 8 hours on Saturday battling the blaze.

https://www.wfsb.com/2023/01/28/firefighters-battle-massive-fire-egg-farm-bozrah/


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ziggy said:
Officials say a 400′x50′ chicken coop was lost, but another 13 chicken coops were saved during the fire.

The Salvation Army Canteen One is on the scene providing Grilled Cheese and soup.

Around 100,000 chickens may have died in the fire, according to the Salvation Army.
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So a chicken coup that is 400'x50' contained 100,000 chickens. That would be 5 chickens per square foot, which is disturbingly little room. Maybe something was left out of, or wrong with the story.
 
Walt said:
So a chicken coup that is 400'x50' contained 100,000 chickens. That would be 5 chickens per square foot, which is disturbingly little room. Maybe something was left out of, or wrong with the story.
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They do stack the cages. And how do you know chickens in nearby coops weren't killed by smoke?

Are you going to lead a boycott against eating non-free range chickens and eggs?
 
Bigdog said:
They do stack the cages. And how do you know chickens in nearby coops weren't killed by smoke?

Are you going to lead a boycott against eating non-free range chickens and eggs?
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OK, lets say they give each chicken 2 square feet. That would be stacked 10 high, meaning that the bottom chicken would spend her entire life with 9 chickens of feces falling on her. That does not seem healthy to me.

I really do not care about the health of chickens, but given that we eat the eggs from those chickens...

Maybe it was chickens in near by coups dying from smoke... or maybe not. Either way, it does appear there are a lot of chickens very tightly packed in.
 
Walt said:
So a chicken coup that is 400'x50' contained 100,000 chickens. That would be 5 chickens per square foot, which is disturbingly little room. Maybe something was left out of, or wrong with the story.
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Likely they used vertical space and had cages stacked up. The life of an egg laying chicken in a factory farm is pretty miserable though.
 
Sirthinksalot said:
Likely they used vertical space and had cages stacked up. The life of an egg laying chicken in a factory farm is pretty miserable though.
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The perfect situation for disease to spread, and then we wonder why diseases spread.

I am beginning to think we are buying short term profit with long term disaster.
 
To be perfectly honest, the fire was only a spit in the bucket, as compared to all the Chickens that died, or had to be killed because of the Avian Bird Flu that is still in pandemic proportion sweeping across the planet.

We may be on an early verge of being able to prove what comes LAST- The Chicken or the egg!
 
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