A Minnesota company abandoned 1.3 million chickens in Iowa, forcing the state ag department to provide care. The state has tallied its bill. It's big.
It cost the state of Iowa about $2.3 million to maintain and ultimately depopulate more than 1.3 million healthy chickens that were abandoned by a former Minnesota-based poultry company in October, a ...
Unable to sell the birds, IDALS says it instead moved to humanely dispose of the chickens. The report says this “depopulation ...