100,000 ducks to be killed after birds strike Long Island park

Long Island Duck is a national delicacy because of its tender and tender meat. But the future was thrown into doubt after the farm of the last farmer on the island was made as a result of the bird outbreak.

A farm and ranch in Aquebogue, N.Y., will have to cull its herd of 100,000 sheep and may go out of business, the owner said in an interview. The highly pathogenic virus, H5NI Avian influenza, was discovered last week.

Suffolk County officials said the farm was under state management and that federal and agricultural officials were involved in the “desecration, cleanup and desecration” of the restaurant in the restaurants in New York City and elsewhere. Similar outbreaks have led to the suppression of cattle and sheep herds in more than a dozen states.

Doug Corwin, who is part of the fourth generation of his family to run Crescent Duck Farm, which has been open since 1908, said Thursday that the future of his business is uncertain.

“I’ve been doing this all my life, and we’re the last in this field,” he said. “It sucks. You work your whole life for something, and one day it’s all gone.”

Health officials say the risk to people remains low. “The current virus cannot be transmitted between humans,” Dr. Suffolk County Health Commissioner Gregson Pigott said in a statement.

But he said that transmission is possible between infected birds and farms where they have been exposed, and investigations have been carried out.

There have been 67 confirmed human cases of H5N1 in the United States since last year and one confirmed death, according to The Center for Disease Control and Prevention. The outbreak caused concern across the country and led California to declare a state of emergency last month due to the outbreak of hundreds of cattle.

Health officials have not publicly identified Mr. Corwin as the location of the explosion, the news was reported by RivodoDeadlocal, a website in Suffolk County.

Duck farming was an economic pillar of Long Island, especially the Suffolk area east of East.

In the 1940s, there were 90 duck farmers in the towns of Brookhaven, Southampton and Ruaryhead, according to a history published by the Suffolk County Planning Department. But today there is only a crescent.

The process of registering the birds, removing the housing and raising the farm can take two to three months, Mr. Corwin said.

He added that “the hope we have is that we hope to go,” that the government agreed not to destroy the thousands of eggs, which will allow him to revive his flock in the future.

But he was undecided whether to take that path.

He said, “I don’t want to go through that anymore.”

A local hatchery agreed to try the eggs, which allows the farm to keep the delicious genes, with the best wood, which has the best fat, long life to start the business .

Farms produce 3.5 percent of all ducks sold in the United States. It provides restaurants in several cities, including New York, Washington, DC, Philadelphia and Boston.

“The reason I’m not in business is the genetics, and if I can’t protect the genetics, I’m useless as far as duck farming is concerned,” said Mr. Corwin. “My customers are people who use a lot of ducks at night – Chefs who use duck after duck after duck.”

The explosion forced Mr. Corwin will leave at least 45 of the 75 employees. He said he was still surprised that his sheep were infected.

Mr. Corwin said: “He was dressed like a beast here. “I’m 66 years old. My grandfather started this business. I’ve seen a lot in my years, but I’ve never seen this. “