Amid massive culls in S. Korea, some chickens get special treatment

[AlaskaDenise]

http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/Engn...3160124E5.html

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SEOUL, Dec. 13 (Yonhap) -- Vast flocks of chickens are being killed, burned and buried in an effort to stop South Korea's bird flu outbreaks, but some are getting a truck drive and a safe haven.

Some 1,000 chickens will be relocated to remote mountains this week away from their home in Nonsan, North Chungcheong Province, as concerns mount over possible infection from nearby outbreak sites. The latest case occurred Monday at a quail farm in Gimje, North Jeolla Province, less than an hour's drive from Nonsan, after two outbreaks nearby last month.

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[AlaskaDenise]

Re: Amid massive culls in S. Korea, some chickens get special treatment

Are they trying to maintain a "seed" stock?

In Africa some had commented that massive culling eliminated their well-adapted irreplaceable breeding stock.

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[hawkeye]

Re: Amid massive culls in S. Korea, some chickens get special treatment

Does this hint at a larger infection throughout S. Korea?

[AlaskaDenise]

Re: Amid massive culls in S. Korea, some chickens get special treatment

Does this hint at a larger infection throughout S. Korea?

I'm hoping that they took some they believed were disease-free to an isolated location to be watched closely. Their breeding stock may have been in a separate building within the original farm & they felt it was safe to try to save them.

Hope it all works well for them.

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