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Do you have a source that free range chickens are less likely to get avian flu? Because in the article it mentions chickens that don't have contact with nature outside a facility are less likely to get it
I remember when there was some .. what was it, hoof & mouth disease, or something, in the UK?
The Problem(tm), was that farms for these animals are crowded,
AND trades of animals were sooo quick, that by the time they clued-in that this was happening, many farms were infected,
& they weren't able to just identify all the now-infected farms, because that wasn't part of their national management system, apparently..
Remapping it to mega-chickenfarms,
I'd bet they've got specialist chick-producing-farms, & then the mega egg-farms, & that they trade with each-other ( replacing dead birds, if nothing else )
& the transactions are happening at such a pace, at national-scale,
that any infection which gains ground somewhere, can essentially "zerg rush" the entire-system, before the controls have a chance to clamp-down properly, AND many simply won't obey any clamp-down order anyways, because obeying law is unAmerican, culturally..
iow, it's in large part, a systems question.
The gestation-period for any illness makes trades that happen quicker-than-that systemically dangerous, when there's some highly-transmissible pathogen going 'round ( whether we know about it, or not ),
& same as you have to slow the trades-cycle of stock-markets to human-scale ( say 2-second intervals for recording trades ), in order to take the stock-market back from the millisecond-trade-algorithms,
you also have to batch the trades in infectable-farm-animals so as to make it more-difficult for transmissible pathogens to OWN a national-economy, but .. moneyarchy won't allow that management, of course..
In the UK case, there was a clear division into superspreader farms vs normal farms.
I'm presuming the same will be true in all farm-animals-industries, at scale.
( sorry for breaking this into pieces, while writing it, but braindamage: it's easier for me to understand the meanings when each piece is clear, by itself: it's my mental-equivalent to a wheelchair, perhaps : )
PS: I just realized..
Some farmers are trading-addicted: it's the "buzz" they get from the doing-deals, which they love sooo much..
I wonder if the superspreader sites were partly the result of that mode of operating a farm?