New Delhi, March 27 -- In the first week of February, Somnath Shelke, a poultry farmer in Maharashtra's Ahmednagar, started receiving text messages on WhatsApp that baffled him. "Broiler chicken me korona virus ko paya gaya hai," one of them said. "Tamam logo se appeal ki jati hai ki broiler ke gosht ka istemal na kare..." As proof of the virus in chickens, two images of blind, tattered-looking broiler chickens accompanied these. Since 2003, Shelke has been running his poultry business alongside his family's fruit and vegetable farms. He sources 4,000-6,000 chickens from a hatchery, shelters them in long, airy sheds, and fattens them up with high-density maize and corn feed. The chickens are ready to be sold in six-seven weeks. A batch of 5...