Doug Corwin, owner of Crescent Duck Farm, center, at a fundraiser in Riverhead to help support workers who were laid off from the Aquebogue farm after an outbreak of bird flu.

The Crescent Duck Farm in Aquebogue, which lost its entire flock of 99,000 to an outbreak of bird flu, has begun the long, methodical process of sanitizing its facilities. Doug Corwin, president ...

Doug Corwin, president of Crescent Duck, picks up one of his ducks at the Crescent Duck Farm in Aquebogue, New York (Associated Press) ...

Doug Corwin, president of Crescent Duck, picks up one of his ducks at the Crescent Duck Farm in Aquebogue, N.Y., Thursday, May 22, 2025.

Doug Corwin, president of Crescent Duck, picks up one of his ducks at the Crescent Duck Farm in Aquebogue, N.Y., Thursday, May 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig) By Associated Press ...

Doug Corwin, president of Crescent Duck, picks up one of his ducks at the Crescent Duck Farm in Aquebogue, N.Y., Thursday, May 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig) Credit: ASSOCIATED PRESS ...

Crescent Duck Farm owner Doug Corwin said the ducklings hatched from eggs that health officials allowed it to preserve from the outbreak. Long Island was once a center of U.S. duck production with ...

AQUEBOGUE, N.Y. (AP) — Doug Corwin knew there was a problem at his family’s commercial duck farm in Long Island when he spotted scores of dead or lethargic birds during a barn inspection in ...