100,000 gallinas ponedoras mueren en un incendio masivo en una granja en Connecticut, dicen las autoridades

About 100,000 egg-laying hens were killed in a large poultry farm fire in Connecticut, officials say.

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A chicken house at Hillandale Farms in Bozrah, a rural southeastern town, caught fire on Saturday, Jan. 28, according to a statement from Hillandale Farms.

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Fire crews from surrounding towns descended on the farm and worked to control the blaze, according to the Lebanon Fire Department.

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The chicken house was a “massive” structure roughly the size of a football field, the department said.

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The structure was eventually destroyed in the fire, though no other buildings were damaged and no employees were injured, the farm said.

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State officials “will be working with Hillandale Farms to confirm the extent of damage, which we understand to be approximately 100,000 egg-laying hens,” a spokesperson for the Connecticut Department of Agriculture told McClatchy News.

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“There are more than 373 million egg-laying hens in the United States,” the spokesperson added. “The anticipated potential impact on egg prices due to this incident is minimal to none at this time.”

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The incident remains under investigation and farm employees are working with both local and state officials to determine what caused the fire, Hillandale Farms said.

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Hillandale Farms raises more than 20 million chickens and is among the top egg producers in the nation, according to its website.

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A poultry farm fire killed 250,000 chickens in Pennsylvania in December, according to WGAL, and another estimated 200,000 died in a Minnesota farm fire in May, according to KDUZ.

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But far more deadly than fires is the avian flu, which killed more than 47 million chickens and turkeys in 2022, according to Reuters.

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