Sentence examples for culled animals from inspiring English sources

Although a number of Prime Minister Tony Abbott's government have supported the plan, lobbying for communities to be able to sell off a small percentage of the number of legally culled animals each year, not everyone is convinced.

Although the Port Authority has culled animals near airpots for decades, the practice gained attention in 2009 after a flock of geese flew into the engines of US Airways Flight 1549, downing the plane, and leading to the famous "Miracle on the Hudson".

Of all animals present in the flocks at the time of the flock cull, close to 36% was culled, and of these culled animals approximately 66% was tested, producing 191 secondary cases of classical scrapie.

When the whole flock or parts of the flock is culled at one point in time, the culled animals which are tested are probably younger compared with animals leaving the flock at the end of their productive lives and tested as part of intensified monitoring.

In Table 4 we also list the numbers of flocks that have been (partially) culled, being traced as flocks of origin of index cases from the surveillance, and the further cases detected in culled animals from these flocks.

These measures consist of either a whole-flock cull or genotyping all animals and culling the animals of susceptible genotype and examining the brain stem of all or a sample of the culled animals of at least 12 months of age for scrapie positivity, using rapid tests.

While culling animals sometimes makes sense as a public health measure — for example, culling chickens to stop an outbreak H5N1 avian flu — animals are also sometimes "punished" pointlessly.

Dairy organizations distribute locomotion charts to help workers assess lameness, which can lead to reproductive failures -- another reason for culling animals.

He felt he had been given incomplete information about the transfer of infected animals, the number of veterinarians and shortages of essential items like insecticide and bullets for culling animals.

Other methods include culling animals in places where accidents are numerous and "break-the-beam" systems, in which animals are fitted with collars that set off flashing lights when they approach a road.

The demand for beef, after initially plummeting, rebounded there when consumers realized how much prices had fallen and how far the government had gone in culling animals at risk of developing the disease.