20,000 chickens have been killed in a shed explosion caused by leaking propane.
Firefighters said the propane explosion levelled a barn housing 20 thousand hens,
Scott Beyer,a poultry specialist at Kansas State University said that the price of eggs would go up as a result of the loss. He said it was a fairly new ‘free-range’ egg operation. and the farmer will now go through the hardship of starting from scratch. Prices of eggs at grocery stores will increase in a market already impacted by the Avian flu.
Mr Beyer said the US egg market has already been hit by bird losses from Avian influenza.
