Some turkey farms in Minnesota have installed bird-deterring lasers, similar to those used at airports, at a cost of about $40,000 per barn, Kohls said.
“We’d rather prevent the disease than respond to it,” she said.
So far, the gold standard of managing the spread of the virus is depopulating a farm, even if it was only found in one barn, said Shauna Voss, assistant director at Minnesota’s Board of Animal Health. After that, there’s a quarantine before more birds can be brought back.
Voss said Minnesota poultry flocks will still be in a high-risk period until “snow starts flying.”
The industry wants more solutions to the virus officially known as highly pathogenic avian influenza.
“The silver bullet of ‘Here’s the problem, here’s how to solve it’ is still out there. We’ve got to find it,” said Sherman Miller, CEO of the nation’s largest egg company, Cal-Maine Foods, during a call with investors Oct. 1.
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