USDA reports massive bird losses. In the past 30 days, they have counted 8,810,000 "birds affected"....

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[–]In-the-clouds[S] 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

My search found the number of chickens in the United States to be half a billion. However, the next wave is only getting started.

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This is where I saw my figure: https://worldanimalfoundation.org/advocate/how-many-chickens-are-in-the-world/

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That source says:

Most of the chickens get slaughtered within 40 to 42 days; therefore, at any given time, there exist 1.522 billion chickens in the US.

While 1.5 billion is substantially less than the 10 billion you originally stated, it is true there are still many birds at poultry farms today, but let's watch and see as farms continue to go up in flames. And if that doesn't depopulate them fast enough.... the USDA pays farmers to kill their birds.