The highly infectious H5N1 strain has caused outbreaks across the country. Now, Long Island’s last duck farm must kill its ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Doug Corwin, owner of Crescent Duck Farm, carries a female duck ...

A farm in Long Island, New York, is being forced to euthanize its flock of more than 100,000 ducks after health officials ...

Established in 1908, the Aquebogue site is the last commercial duck farm on Long Island, once world-renowned for its ducks.

Corwin was forced to lay off 48 workers but kept 20 to help with the clean up. He said the company was successful in ...

Crescent Duck Farm in Aquebogue will have to euthanize every bird at the facility after H5N1 bird flu was confirmed in the flock.

Despite the havoc it is wreaking on the farm, health officials say the risk of the public getting sick is minimal.

“The only way we’ve survived on Long Island is by making a duck that is different from our competition,” Corwin said. Following the outbreak, the farm was allowed to hold on to several ...

NEW YORK (AP) — New York’s Long Island was once synonymous with “duck” in the culinary world. Now it may lose its last commercial farm. The avian flu outbreak that has led to the slaughter ...