Last week we told you about the spike in the price of chicken. It's due to a different price hike, that of corn and soybean grain vital to chicken feed, an expense that Belize's Poultry Association said it just wasn't able to shoulder
And, tonight reports out of the Spanish lookout are that of a large heat-induced chicken kill. It was documented in these pictures taken at an unknown farm, one that, as late as this morning, Poultry Association Manager Armando Cowo had yet to track down.
But in the hours since there's been a release from the association, a set of guidelines to help other poultry farmers avoid the same, and some general information for the public which is mainly designed to disabuse anyone of the notion that the chicken kill was caused by disease.
That release says quote; "Currently there is no disease in our barns that is causing any death in birds as is being pushed by some people on social media accounts. " It goes on to explain that what killed the chickens was the extreme heatwave that the country has been experiencing since April 12th.
The Poultry association claims that even though they're experiencing losses, they aren't major losses and will not affect the current price of poultry products.
