Source: Rita Jane Gabbett, MEATINGPLACE, 10/2/17



The USPOULTRY Foundation has approved $125,000 in additional emergency funding to support avian influenza research and communication.

The research is a follow-up study on a previously funded project in which researchers provided insight on using ventilation shut down (VSD) as a humane depopulation method. The study showed that the addition of heat and/or CO2 to the VSD procedure provided a rapid and humane depopulation method.

The recently funded additional research will repeat these investigations using broiler chickens and turkeys, since the original research was completed with layers. The previous research summary and final report can be found on the USPOULTRY website at www.uspoultry.org.

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