Implementing Water-Based Foam Depopulation of Floor Reared Poultry
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There are six major steps involved in responding to rapidly spreading poultry disease outbreaks including biosecurity, surveillance, quarantine, mass emergency depopulation, mass carcass disposal, and decontamination. Water-based foam is one of the methods used for mass emergency depopulation during severe disease outbreaks. This project evaluated the logistics of foam depopulation in two experiments. In one experiment, the impact of operating in wider poultry barns was assessed. In the second, the logistics of containerized depopulation were evaluated. Foam expansion rate was impacted by the type of equipment used, with foam generators having higher expansion rate than air aspirating nozzles. Foam expansion rate generally improves the longer the system operates. Barn width negatively affected expansion rate and for wider barns, extensions were required for the system to be efficiently operated.
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