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Another batch of 900 arrived last week and some 900 more will soon make their way to the roughly 140-acre farm in Aquebogue, ...
In recent weeks, ducks reared from the last remaining eggs from Crescent Duck Farm in Aquebogue have been available for sale at Miloski’s Poultry Farm in Calverton. Crescent lost nearly all its ...
The Crescent Duck Farm on Long Island’s north fork is 117 years old, the last of the island’s duck farms — a region that was once the duck capital of the country — and the supplier that ...
New York’s Long Island was once synonymous with “duck” in the culinary world. Now it may lose its last commercial farm. The avian flu outbreak that has led to the slaughter of millions of ...
Doug Corwin knew there was a problem at his family’s commercial duck farm in Long Island when he spotted scores of dead ...
AQUEBOGUE, Long Island (WABC) -- A bird flu outbreak is having a devastating impact on Suffolk County's largest and last commercial duck farm. The H5N1 outbreak at Crescent Duck Farm in Aquebogue ...
A duck farm on Long Island has hatched a new generation of chicks — beginning to replace the nearly 100,000 mallards they were forced to kill due to the spread of avian flu. Crescent Duck Farm ...
At the beginning of the year, Doug Corwin’s duck farm was thriving. By January 13, one of his barns held 12,000 two-week-old ducklings. It was cold, but they looked healthy. Another flock of 800 ...
“It was like Covid for ducks. Everything ended,” Corwin, who is the president of the Crescent Duck Farm in Aqueboge told Riverhead Local. The sudden outbreak of the flu –which was first ...
During its heyday in the early 1960s, the region boasted more than 100 farms, producing up to 7.5 million birds annually, or about two-thirds of the nation’s duck output. Crescent Duck Farm has ...
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 ...