Health officials have culled around 42 million egg-laying chickens and 7.5 million turkeys due to the bird flu in the US. After losing a large number of chickens and turkeys, poultry farmers are quite uncertain about their future.

The Des Moines Register has stated farmers are not aware when federal government will give them permission to start rebuilding their flocks. Owing to the incident considered to be worst animal-health emergency in the US history, led China to stop all the US poultry imports.

Other global buyers have also imposed restrictions on trade. Poultry breeders and hatcheries want their chickens should remain safe. Therefore, they have relocated them to places that are free from the flu.

The US Department of Agriculture has stated that owing to warm weather, the virus is unable to survive leave aside thrive outdoors. But the officials are concerned about the cases that will increase during the fall as wild birds that spread the disease start migrating south.

Farmers who lost their hens due to the virus are planning to get new chickens in the coming months. But one of the main factors in this the breeding stock needed for the replacement birds. Iowa Agriculture Secretary Bill Northey said that he thinks the US Department of Agriculture will soon give permission to few poultry companies to resume operations.

The Iowa Poultry Association said that if chickens are moved to farms before the end of this year then egg laying process can be started early next year.