Flathead backyard poultry producers helping fight the spread of avian flu
Michelle Knopp of Cowboy Coop inspects her chickens Monday, May 2. Local backyard poultry producers are doing their best to combat the spread of avian flu. (Jeremy Weber/Daily Inter Lake)
Normally found in migratory waterfowl (swans, geese, ducks, etc), avian influenza is rarely harmful to those species but is deadly to domestic chickens and turkeys as well as wild raptor species. (Jeremy Weber/Daily Inter Lake)
Cowboy Coop is keeping its chickens indoors for the time being as local backyard poultry producers are doing their best to combat the spread of avian flu. (Jeremy Weber/Daily Inter Lake)
Local backyard poultry producers are doing their best to combat the spread of avian flu. (Jeremy Weber/Daily Inter Lake)
A roaming flock of wild turkeys slowly made their way across the open field next to Cowboy Coop’s three small chicken coops not far from Hodgson Road on Monday morning. As owner Michelle Knopp checked on her flock, she lamented having to keep her poultry locked away....
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