Cull
Culling refers to the precautionary killing of animals , usually to prevent the spread of animal diseases .
In the case of a cull, the entire animal population is either in a specified zone or of a certain farm (stock cull) or a certain part of a farm (cohort cull). Culls can be ordered according to the Animal Health Act . After a cull, carcass disposal , e.g. B. combustion instead.
Mass culling of farm animals in connection with highly contagious animal diseases such as BSE , foot-and-mouth disease , swine fever and H5N1 avian flu is the most common and most effective method of containing animal diseases. At the same time, a cull is always accompanied by the definition of a restricted area and further disease prophylactic measures. In 2006, poultry stocks were culled on Rügen after the H5N1 virus was detected in some dead wild birds. In England in 2001/2002 the killing of more than 6.5 million farm animals in connection with foot and mouth disease caused a sensation.
On September 8, 2007, the largest cull in Germany to date was initiated on two duck fattening farms of a company in the Upper Palatinate : After the H5N1 bird flu broke out, 205,000 ducks were culled. One week was set as the duration.
In 2009, 6,000 dromedaries overran the village of Kaltukatjara ( Docker River ) in the southwest of the Australian state of Northern Territory in search of water (see also Camels in Australia ). An emergency cull of 3,604 animals was ordered.
In 2018, African swine fever caused culls from China to Romania .
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- ↑ Bird flu reaches the German mainland , Handelsblatt
- ↑ Herwig Grimm, Carola Otterstedt: The animal itself: interdisciplinary perspectives for new ways in science-based animal welfare . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2012, ISBN 9783525404478 , p. 352.
- ↑ 200,000 ducks are culled , NZZ online article from September 8, 2007, accessed on December 22, 2010
- ↑ Australian camel cull plan angers animal welfare groups , Guardian of 26 November 2009, accessed 22 December 2010
- ↑ Friederike Böge: China kills 120,000 pigs as a precaution. In: faz.net . November 19, 2018, accessed December 9, 2018 .
- ↑ Romania: 123,000 pigs emergency slaughtered In: schweizerbauer.ch , August 30, 2018, accessed on December 9, 2018.