*3B—Lancaster Fanning, Saturday, April 7,1984
Family hatcheries
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laments Emma. “Now we have to
cross-examine every caller about
where he lives. It’s been a night
mare.’’
With earlier indications that the
quarantine in the Gettysburg task
force area might be lifted on
March 1, the Case family had
optimistically filled the in
cubators. Through the past
months, customers had steadily
been placing orders, many of them
prepaid, and for which refunds will
now have to be made.
Now, a month after that an
ticipated date of quarantine lifting,
Avian flu task force officials
promise virtually no hope for a
removal of the ban on sales out of
the quarantine area in the im
mediate future.
“At the earliest, it would be the
middle of May,” says Dr. Allan
Furr, with the USDA’s Vet Ser
vices Animal Health Program, at
Hyattsville, Md. “And everything
would have to ‘click’; mid-May is
optimistic.”
“There’s just too much at
stake,” the USDA official adds.
“We’re talking about a $9.5 billion
industry, a half-billion of that in
export business.”
Calling the Case situation, a
“victim of circumstances,” Dr.
Furr affirmed the federal
government’s position than only
flocks found to be infected with the
Avian flu virus, and destroyed by
the task forces, are eligible for
indemnity payments.
Earlier, the Case’s had asked
officials to condemn and destroy
their breeding flocks, an action
prohibited by law since the birds
are not diseased.
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Business for the year, perhaps
up to $lOO,OOO worth, is virtually
lost.
Since the bulk of Case Hat
chery’s sales is out-of-state,
shipments to these customers
simply can’t be made. Chicks are
coming out of the incubators, and
eggs that normally would go for
hatching are instead bringing a
salvage price for table use
wholesaling.
Egg laying by the breeding
flocks is at a seasonal high. Nor
mally, fertile a dozen eggs that
might sell to customers intending
to incubate them will bring up to
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Emma Case faced death two days later, because of Avian flu
quarantine banning sales out of the quarantine area.
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value of a dozen chicken eggs is
about 75 cents.
Parent stock for these breeds
alone cost |3.50 and up for just a
day-old chick.
Day-old ducklings are valued at
about 73 cents, but a whole dozen of
eggs sold through the wholesale
market, bring less.
As the flock egg output con
tinues, the incubators grow cold.
Only the bare minimum of fertile
eggs to fill customer orders for
shipment within the quarantine
area are being started in the in
cubator.
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left the family's hatchery on Monday. Normal volume of or-
ders for this time of year fills three trucks.
have broken out in the Gettysburg
area since Decmeber 28, officials
continue to monitor about 30 flocks
that had been possibly exposed to
the highly pathogenic strain found
in a flock near East Berlin.
One case was confirmed in the
Lancaster area over last weekend,
accordiong to Dr. Furr.
Local customers and neighbors
continue to filter into the Case
family’s hatchery sales area, and
orders trickle in from the
quarantine zone.
Faced with hundreds of bright
eyed chicks, ducklings and
goslings, buyers are taking
perhaps a few more than they had
originally intended, knowing that
death is the fate for most of the tiny
birds.
Such kindness, support and
understanding by loyal customers
have helped to shore up the Case
family’s fading morale.
“We owe it to our local
customers to finish out the year,”
adds Emma. “After that....”
Her sentence, unfinished, trails
to oblivion.
easier, up to 3,000 ducklings.
A special shipment of 750 turkey
hatchlings came in Monday, and
2500 are due in from a Texas
breeder on April 16.
“We had hopes until March 1
came and went, but I’m really
depressed now,” Emma admits.
“We’re about at the point of
eradicating ourselves as a hat
chery. While you always know that
something like this can happen,
you never believe that it will. ”
While some task force officials
have suggested that the Cases keep
track of the birds they’ve
destroyed, Emma sees little hope
at this point of recovering any
losses.
Additionally, they’re feeding an
extra 5,000 birds that normally
would have been culled weekly at
local markets and auctions. All
live auctions were closed when the
quarantine went into effect.
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Tuesday afternoon in Hyattsville,
for USDA’s officials there to look
at the most recent Avian flu in
formation. While no new cases
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