The spread of a disease impacting the thickness of chicken eggshells appears to be slowing.
Egg drop syndrome is a rare, transmittable disease that impacts the thickness of eggshells. So far, the disease has affected chickens at around 20 northern Indiana farms.
The disease spreads like other viral diseases when farmers move from flock to flock. While humans aren’t affected, the eggs chickens lay aren’t able to be sold and there’s no cure.
The last reported case occurred nearly three weeks ago, and health officials say cases have been largely contained—according to Denise Derrer Spears, the Public Information Director at the Indiana State Board of Animal Health.
"Most of them have been in the Elkhart [and] LaGrange County area," she said. "They’re all pretty limited as far as geographies. It’s basically been in that central part of northern Indiana."
She says farmers should take basic mitigation strategies to avoid spreading this and other diseases.
