WISHTV Two more duck operations in northern Indiana and a hobby flock of mixed species in the Indianapolis metropolitan area are the latest to be quarantined with bird flu, the state’s Board of Animal Health said Tuesday night.
A commercial meat duck operation with 20,772 birds in Elkhart County and another with 4,837 birds in LaGrange County bring the total of quarantined farms since mid-October to 15. All of the previously quarantined farms are being depopulated, according a dashboard from the Board of Animal Health that’s tracking the quarantines.
In Johnson County, south of Indianapolis, the state says a “non-poultry,” mixed-species hobby flock with 24 birds has been found to have avian influenza. Such flocks generally include pet birds, birds kept for exhibition, or backyard flocks where products are not sold commercially.
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