Searching for the chicken in Petaluma, the former Egg Basket of the World It’s no longer the biggest poultry center on earth. But the Sonoma city is still a fine place for farm stands, frittatas ...

Cal-Maine Foods lost about 1.9 million chickens, or 3.6% of its flock, as a result of an outbreak at a Texas plant. The CDC says, however, that a person is unlikely to get bird flu from eggs.

At the same time, Hickman's Egg Ranch, which is Arizona's largest egg producer and one of the nation's top 20 producers, has had to destroy the chickens at three of its four farms due to the bird flu.