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Foam depopulation was developed in 2006 in response to a 2004 outbreak of H7N2. [8] It received conditional approval the same year in the US by the USDA-APHIS. [9]In the 2015 H5N2 outbreak in the US, foaming was the primary method used to kill poultry en masse with it employed at 66% of locations. [10]
800,000 chickens at an egg farm near Pasco are being euthanized.
Male chicks on a macerator conveyor belt, seconds before they are killed Chicks ground by a macerator. Chick culling or unwanted chick killing is the process of separating and killing unwanted (male and unhealthy female) chicks for which the intensive animal farming industry has no use.
A Virginia opossum (Didelphis virginiana) playing dead A barred grass snake (Natrix helvetica) playing dead. Apparent death [a] is a behavior in which animals take on the appearance of being dead. It is an immobile state most often triggered by a predatory attack and can be found in a wide range of animals from insects and crustaceans to ...
That same week, the virus infected an egg laying farm in Cache County, Utah, costing the farmer 1.8 million chickens, while another 839,700 egg-layers were killed in Franklin County in Washington ...
More than 1.3 million chickens are being slaughtered on an Ohio egg farm as the bird flu continues to take a toll on the industry. The U.S. Department of Agriculture said all 1.35 million chickens ...
Karen Davis (February 4, 1944 – November 4, 2023) was an American animal rights advocate, and president of United Poultry Concerns, a non-profit organization founded in 1990 to address the treatment of domestic fowl—including chickens, turkeys, and ducks—in factory farming. Davis also maintained a sanctuary.
The company said highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) had affected about 684,000 laying hens, or nearly 1.6% of its total flock. Cal-Maine said these detections do not present an immediate ...