A New York region once synonymous in the culinary world for duck may lose its last commercial farm. Crescent Duck Farm on ...
The highly infectious H5N1 strain has caused outbreaks across the country. Now, Long Island’s last duck farm must kill its ...
The owner of the Crescent Duck Farm in Aquebogue, N.Y., has been forced to euthanize its flock of more than 100,000 ducks due ...
The farm is a top supplier of duck for high-end restaurants, including eateries on Long Island and in New York City.
The risk to humans is still considered low, although transmission is possible for farm workers who handle the infected flock ...
Long Island was once a center of duck production ... or about two-thirds of the nation’s duck output. Crescent Duck Farm has been the island’s lone remaining operation for the better part ...
Nearly 100,000 ducks will be killed at Long Island’s last major commercial duck farm after bird flu was detected at the Suffolk County facility. Crescent Duck Farm in Aquebogue has played host ...
Crescent Duck Farm in Aquebogue will have to euthanize every bird at the facility after H5N1 bird flu was confirmed in the flock.