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At least four commercial farms in Maricopa County have closed due to bird flu outbreaks that have decimated chicken flocks.

So when a farm has to destroy egg-laying chickens because of the spread of bird flu, it takes at least five months to get new hens to that egg-laying age again. It's a formula for trouble.

When one chicken gets the disease, the standard method to prevent it from spreading is to cull the entire flock. Hickman said his egg farm in Maricopa lost 1.1 million chickens to the bird flu.