SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (KY3) - The Missouri Department of Agriculture is warning poultry farmers to watch out for bird flu.

The bird flu ravaged flocks across the country last Spring, and one person in Missouri contracted the disease for the first time in history. The virus was also detected in livestock. 

More than 100 million chickens and turkeys had to be culled in the United States, including almost 4 million in southwest Missouri. Experts say start protecting your poultry now and take any signs that your flock may be affected seriously.

“Creating barriers between your own, birds in either migrating birds or neighbors that maybe also have poultry, that is one of the best things that we can do to kind of prevent these sorts of diseases from coming in,” said Lacy Sukovaty, a Missouri State

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