That accounted for about 95 percent of Hickman Farms' bird population. CEO Glenn Hickman held a press conference on May 30 to address the situation. To him, the loss was entirely preventable.

Hickman’s Family Farms in Buckeye will halt most egg production after bird flu killed 6 million chickens in Arizona, triggering layoffs, officials said Friday.

“I’m here today to tell you that we’ve lost 95% of the chickens we have in the state,” Glenn Hickman, Hickman’s Family Farms’ president and CEO, said.

We’re keeping the flock laying longer,” Glenn Hickman, president and CEO of Buckeye-based Hickman’s Family Farms, told KTAR News 92.3 FM’s The Mike Broomhead Show on Thursday.

Hickman's Family Farms has several bird operations across Arizona, as well as smaller ones Colorado. The farm, founded in 1944, is the largest egg company in the Southwest, and in the top 20 in ...

“I’m here today to tell you that we’ve lost 95% of the chickens we have in the state,” Glenn Hickman, Hickman’s Family Farms’ president and CEO, said.

“I’m here today to tell you that we’ve lost 95% of the chickens we have in the state,” Glenn Hickman, Hickman’s Family Farms’ president and CEO, said.

“I’m here today to tell you that we’ve lost 95% of the chickens we have in the state,” Glenn Hickman, Hickman’s Family Farms’ president and CEO, said.

BUCKEYE, Ariz. (KPHO /Gray News) — An Arizona farm and one of the largest egg producers in the U.S. confirmed on Friday that it has lost nearly its entire chicken population in the state. According to ...