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How bird flu has devastated one American farm

MATTESON, Ill. — This is what bird flu looks like.

The coop is empty and cavernous, the air still heavy with the stench of chicken waste.

On the floor, wood chip bedding has soaked up most of the blood from the birds slaughtered to prevent further spread of infection.

Stray feathers litter the ground. A few remnants of beige eggshells crunch underfoot.

There used to be 3,000 hens on Kakadoodle Farm — scratching, pecking, following the farmworkers around. Creating a din so loud you could barely hear someone yell from the other end of the coop.

Now there are none.

Marty Thomas, a co-owner of Kakadoodle Farm, in a quarantined chicken coop on the farm. Jim Vondruska for NBC News

It’s a scene that keeps repeating itself, again and again, on poultry farms large and small across America.

The biggest avian influenza outbreak in U.S. history is taking a brutal toll. Birds are dying off — or they're slaughtered — by the thousands. Farms are suffering massive financial losses, compounded in some cases by federal funding cuts and freezes. The outbreak has driven retail egg prices to a record high last month of $5.90 a dozen on average, nearly double what they were a year earlier. They have reached $12 a dozen in some places.