News tagged with chicken farms
Bird flu outbreak hits Dutch chicken farm
Dutch authorities were slaughtering thousands of chickens at a poultry farm in central Netherlands after an outbreak of a bird flu variety there, an agriculture ministry spokesman said.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Jun 24, 2011 |
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Japan culls 10,000 chickens to contain bird flu
Japan began slaughtering some 10,000 chickens Saturday at a poultry farm in western Miyazaki prefecture in a bid to contain an outbreak of bird flu, the local government said.
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Jan 22, 2011 |
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Less feather pecking with bitter spray
Feather pecking among chickens can be reduced by half if their feathers are sprayed with a bitter substance. Unfortunately, pecking cannot be corrected, says Bas Rodenburg of the Animal Breeding and Genomics Centre of Wageningen ...
Oct 29, 2010 |
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Chicken waste turned to watts
A Nevada energy developer says it has developed an environmentally clean way of using animal waste from chicken farms across the state to light up homes and offices. Green Energy Solutions wants to convert ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Dec 26, 2009 |
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Hong Kong bird tests positive for H5N1
Hong Kong authorities said Friday that a dead chicken found in the southern Chinese territory had tested positive for the deadly H5N1 strain of the bird flu virus.
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Mar 06, 2009 |
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