The Iowa Department of Agriculture and the U-S Department of Agriculture announced Tuesday that a turkey farm that was infected with the bird flu completed the cleaning and disinfection process and is starting over. Iowa Turkey Federation spokesperson, Gretta Irwin, says they are pleased to see the progress.

The turkey farms composted the dead birds in their buildings and then those buildings had be cleaned and tested before new birds could be brought in.

The farm in Calhoun County was confirmed to have the Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza on May 19th. This farm had six barns that hold 28,800 turkey poults that ranged from birth to five weeks of age, and 14,400 finisher turkeys that are five weeks to 20 weeks of age. New birds were place in the buildings last Friday (July 31st) Irwin says they it won’t be long before more turkey farms follow.