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  2. Permethrin - Wikipedia

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    Permethrin is a medication and an insecticide. [6] [7] As a medication, it is used to treat scabies and lice. [8]It is applied to the skin as a cream or lotion. [6] As an insecticide, it can be sprayed onto outer clothing or mosquito nets to kill the insects that touch them.

  3. Antibiotic use in the United States poultry farming industry

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    Testing revealed that chickens fed with a variety of vitamin B12 produced with the residue of a specific antibiotic grew 50% faster than chickens fed with B12 from a different source. [2] Further research confirmed that antibiotic use improved chicken health, resulting in increased egg production, lower mortality rates, and reduced illness.

  4. Environmental impacts of animal agriculture - Wikipedia

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    Moreover, the efficiency of meat production varies depending on the specific production system, as well as the type of feed. It may require anywhere from 0.9 and 7.9 kilograms of grain to produce 1 kilogram of beef, between 0.1 to 4.3 kilograms of grain to produce 1 kilogram of pork, and 0 to 3.5 kilograms of grains to produce 1 kilogram of ...

  5. Animal husbandry - Wikipedia

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    Familiar livestock: ink and watercolour drawing of a farmyard with cow, horse, pigs, and chickens, 1869 Governments are concerned with zoonoses , diseases that humans may acquire from animals. Wild animal populations may harbour diseases that can affect domestic animals which may acquire them as a result of insufficient biosecurity .

  6. 'No harm, no foul' as horse gets loose during final big ... - AOL

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    11 Kentucky Derby contenders get their final breezes at Churchill Downs; jockey announced for Tawny Port.

  7. Poultry farming - Wikipedia

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    Meat chickens, commonly called broilers, are floor-raised on litter such as wood shavings, peanut shells, and rice hulls, indoors in climate-controlled housing. Under modern farming methods, meat chickens reared indoors reach slaughter weight at 5 to 9 weeks of age, as they have been selectively bred to do so. In the first week of a broiler's ...

  8. Avian influenza - Wikipedia

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    chicken is the animal species the isolate was found in (note: human isolates lack this component term and are thus identified as human isolates by default) Nakorn-Patom/Thailand is the place this specific virus was isolated

  9. Dermanyssus gallinae - Wikipedia

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    Dermanyssus gallinae (also known as the red mite) is a haematophagous ectoparasite of poultry.It has been implicated as a vector of several major pathogenic diseases. [1] [2] Despite its common names, it has a wide range of hosts including several species of wild birds and mammals, including humans, where the condition it causes is called gamasoidosis.