Avian-flu quarantine coincides with Sparboe Farms layoffs
HUDSON — The Colorado Department of Agriculture has ordered a poultry and poultry product quarantine in and around Hudson after Highly Pathogenic H5N1 Avian Influenza was detected at Sparboe Farms, a chicken-egg operation in Hudson that temporarily laid off 95 workers last week and is in the process of culling 1.36 million birds.
The bird-flu outbreak at Sparboe Farms, owned by Minnesota-based Sparboe Cos., is one of the first to occur at a large commercial operation in Colorado, a state that this month established a unified command group to help respond to a disease…
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