Ionia County poultry ranch forced to dispose of apparently nearly 6.5 million chickens due to avian influenza

Michigan’s largest egg producer has been forced to dispose of apparently nearly 6.5 million chickens in the wake of avian influenza.

Herbruck’s Poultry Ranch, a fourth-generation family farm, owns a major chicken operation in Ionia County’s Saranac as well as another operation in Pennsylvania, and supplies eggs to all McDonald’s restaurants east of the Mississippi, along with being an Eggland’s Best franchiser throughout the Midwest.