A fast-spreading outbreak of avian flu that’s affected more than 69 million birds nationwide since 2022 has reached one of the crown jewels of Bay Area poultry: Liberty Ducks, a Sonoma County farm name-checked on the menus of its roughly 200 wholesale clients, including Chez Panisse and the French Laundry.
One of Liberty’s smaller production farm locations recently tested positive for the virus, Chief Operating Officer Jennifer Reichardt wrote in an announcement for a fundraiser to help the business fend off the virus and deal with the lingering financial repercussions of the COVID pandemic.
“There was never going to be a good time for this to hit, but during the holidays it is especially hard,” Reichardt wrote in an email to the Chronicle. “These should have been our biggest three weeks of the year, and it’s been severely crippled with the outbreak. ”
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