Sentence examples for during the culling from inspiring English sources

Scientists have known since the late 1990s that many of these elephants were psychologically affected by their experiences during the culling.

In the poultry culling area, 1 large slaughterhouse (2 locations) and 1 smaller slaughterhouse, which together accounted for 15% of the national slaughter capacity for broiler chickens, had to be closed during the culling (March June).

With exception of the dairy sheep farm, all unvaccinated herds with a high prevalence of C. burnetii positive uterine samples had no known history of Q fever until milk PCR results became positive during the culling period.

†Shown are farms that had a positive PCR result at the start of the culling period and those for which a PCR result changed from negative to positive during the culling period (date).

During the culling process, workers disarticulated chickens' necks and placed the dead birds in individual sacks.

The meat from the roughly 1,000 whales killed during the cull is sold to partly pay for the expeditions.

Guardian photographs taken covertly during the cull show what appears to be a young bottlenose floating, motionless and belly up, just beyond the slaughter zone.

But the minimum targets set for badger kills in each area were changed during the culls depending on how many were being shot, being reduced by up to 50% in some places.

The National Farmers UnionNFUNFU), which speaks on behalf of Gloscon, refused to comment on the letter, explaining that its policy was not to comment on "operational matters" during the cull.

Speaking after the hearing, Gloucestershire Police said they "maintained operational independence" during Operation Themis, the name given to the work the force did during the cull.

"The whole purpose of our group is to look for wounded badgers - badgers that have been shot during the cull process and then haven't been killed outright," he says.