Ridgeland, Mississippi-based Cal-Maine Foods, Inc. said in a statement that approximately 1.6 million laying hens and 337,000 pullets, or about 3.6% of its total flock, were destroyed after avian influenza was found at a facility in Parmer County, Texas.
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