Are chicken farms particularly susceptible to fire? Do chickens like playing with matches?
This is just very puzzling.
I wonder if the egg farms have really good insurance coverage.
Is it to the advantage of the owners to see the operations burn, and then use insurance proceeds to build a new state-of-the art facility?
No.
Actually, poultry farms are more vulnerable to fire than, say, dairy farms. The bedding used for poultry is highly flammable. In the past, the heat lamps and brooding lamps were the most likely sources of ignition, but these days there are safer options available.
NOT saying that all these fires are accidental, there have been too many of them in a short time to be a coincidence. But, if a person were looking to destroy livestock with fire, a poultry farm is a very vulnerable target. With larger animals like pigs or cattle, I think the amount of wet manure everywhere would at least slow the fire down.
(This is based entirely on what I’ve observed in the farms I have personally visited. YMMV.)