{"id":8714,"date":"2016-10-14T17:08:12","date_gmt":"2016-10-14T21:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=8714"},"modified":"2016-10-15T16:15:20","modified_gmt":"2016-10-15T20:15:20","slug":"floods-kill-1-9-million-chicken-and-turkeys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2016\/10\/floods-kill-1-9-million-chicken-and-turkeys\/","title":{"rendered":"Floods kill 1.9 million chickens and turkeys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to a story today by the <em>News&amp;Observer<\/em>, \u00a0&#8220;North Carolina farmers face the task of disposing of 1.9 million chickens and turkeys drowned in Hurricane Matthew flood waters. \u00a0Thirty-five farms in 15 counties lost poultry, said Brian Long, spokesman for the state Department of Agriculture. Most of those birds were chickens, but about 100,000 turkeys also died.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The disposal of all of these birds and other livestock as well as flood-damaged material will be an ongoing problem in this region, which is still experiencing flooding in many locations after the rains from Matthew brought 500 year rains to the area.<\/p>\n<p>You can read more about their cleanup efforts at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsobserver.com\/news\/weather\/article108252462.html\">https:\/\/www.newsobserver.com\/news\/weather\/article108252462.html<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8715\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8715\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/10\/industrial-chicken-coop.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8715\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/10\/industrial-chicken-coop-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Source: I Tamar K., Commons Wikimedia\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/10\/industrial-chicken-coop-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/10\/industrial-chicken-coop-184x138.jpg 184w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/10\/industrial-chicken-coop.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8715\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: I Tamar K., Commons Wikimedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a story today by the News&amp;Observer, \u00a0&#8220;North Carolina farmers face the task of disposing of 1.9 million chickens and turkeys drowned in Hurricane Matthew flood waters. \u00a0Thirty-five farms in 15 counties lost poultry, said Brian Long, spokesman for the state Department of Agriculture. Most of those birds were chickens, but about 100,000 turkeys [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":8715,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,13,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-livestock","category-tropical-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8714"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8720,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8714\/revisions\/8720"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}