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Precautions For Day Old Fowl Pox Vaccination, P Smetana
Precautions For Day Old Fowl Pox Vaccination, P Smetana
Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4
DURING 1962 day old vaccination was widely adopted as a preventative measure against fowl pox.
From June, 1961, until mid-June, 1962, this procedure proved to be highly successful, but from this date onwards a proportion of treated flocks became affected by breakdowns accompanied by mortality and retarded growth.
In some cases the losses were disturbingly high.
Avian Leucosis And Fowl Paralysis, M R. Gardiner
Avian Leucosis And Fowl Paralysis, M R. Gardiner
Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4
I N all poultry raising areas throughout the world leucosis accounts for a greater loss of birds than any other disease.
Pullorum Tested Poultry Flocks : 1963, Department Of Agriculture, Western Australia
Pullorum Tested Poultry Flocks : 1963, Department Of Agriculture, Western Australia
Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4
PULLORUM disease has been virtually eliminated from breeding and hatchery poultry flocks in Western Australia by the annual blood-testing of all birds and the destruction of reactors.
Only 222 reactors were found in a total of 170,474 birds tested this season—an incidence of infection of only 0.13 per cent.