Foam-based mass emergency depopulation of floor-reared meat-type poultry operations

Poultry Science

Volumn 86, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 219-224

  Benson, E ^a   Malone, G W ^a   Alphin, R L ^a   Dawson, M D ^a   Pope, C R ^a   Van Wicklen, G L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Avian influenza; Broiler chicken; Depopulation; Foam; Mass euthanasia

Indexed keywords

AVES;

CARBON DIOXIDE; CORTICOSTERONE; FLAME RETARDANT;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL EUTHANASIA; ANIMAL HOUSING; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ARTICLE; AVIAN INFLUENZA; BLOOD; CHICKEN; EPIDEMIC; MEAT; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; CARBON DIOXIDE; CHICKENS; CORTICOSTERONE; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EUTHANASIA, ANIMAL; FLAME RETARDANTS; HOUSING, ANIMAL; INFLUENZA IN BIRDS; MEAT;

EID: 33947536925     PISSN: 00325791     EISSN: 15253171     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ps/86.2.219     Document Type: Article

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