Thursday, December 11, 2008

Wholesale sales last farm outbreak  7.5 million chickens

December 11, 2008

Yuen Long farm the day before the outbreak of bird flu, the Hong Kong Government ordered the immediate sale  infected farms and the Cheung Sha Wan Wholesale Poultry Market, about 90,000 chickens, yesterday estimated that a total of 24-pin  about 75,000 live chickens.

A large number of AFCD staff yesterday put on a full set of protective clothing, respectively, at the outbreak of chicken farms in Lau Fau Shan, Yuen Long and Cheung Sha Wan Wholesale Poultry Market, "chickens", and sent the crane into the farm, away Filled with bags of dead chickens in black garbage bags.

Since the outbreak of live chickens into the farm had the Cheung Sha Wan Temporary Wholesale Market, yesterday morning, authorities sent dozens of officers wearing white protective clothing market to "kill a chicken." AFCD staff first 10-20 to catch live chickens into a green plastic drums, closed heads, and then baked  carbon monoxide into the dead chickens only. In the market are about 10,000 live chickens have been sold yesterday .

The remaining 10,000 chickens infected sell this 

Another group of about 50 AFCD staff, about 11 o'clock in the morning, arrived at the outbreak farms in Lau Fau Shan, Yuen Long. They put on protective gear to walk through the door to place the disinfection of farms barrels soles disinfected before entering the chicken "to kill a chicken." Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department said that farms with about 65,000 live chickens were sold whole . Today will be another infected farms to sell  about 10,000 live chickens.

If other farms Baoyihuosha chickens in Hong Kong

Food and Health Secretary York Chow said he hoped yesterday and today to be completed in two farms in Yuen Long areas  sell live chickens. He said that if other chicken farms in Hong Kong is also the outbreak of bird flu, would not rule out the possibility of Hong Kong were slaughtered 680,000 chickens.

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