Bakal Tauke Walet Junior III

Harap2 anak yang ketiga ini berminat dalam bidang usahawan/ perniagaan selari dengan rakan2 cina di SJKC

BAKAL tauke sarang burung walet junior I

control of Bird Flu Explored at World Congress 29 August 2012

ANALYSIS - Outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) have tended to be more severe and prolonged in less developed countries with a high poultry density, according to avian flu expert, Dr David Swayne. Stamping out is the best method for control but vaccination can be an effective tool, he said. Senior editor, Jackie Linden, reports on his presentation to the World Poultry Congress.

As predictors of the severity of outbreaks, he found that transmission occurred more easily and outbreaks were more prolonged in areas of high poultry population density in less developed countries.

 Looking at vaccine use over the period 2002 to 2010, more than 113 billion doses have been administered to poultry worldwide, with 25.7 million doses in 2010, according to Dr Swayne. Coverage averaged around 40 per cent, or 11 per cent of global production. The great majority of the vaccines were of the traditional inactivated whole virus type, with just 4.5 per cent of the recombinant type. Fourteen countries have now used vaccination, most notably China, Egypt, Indonesia and Viet Nam. 

燕窝小老板，还在求学中。

Ini bakal/ pelapis yang akan meneruskan legancy perniagaan wanzulswiftlet dalam industri perladangan burung walet. Selain daripada memiliki bahasa cina yang bagus tauke walet junior II juga diharap menyerap budaya bangsa cina yang memiliki survival yang tinggi untul terus survive dalam perniagaan kelak. 

                                               和我的二女儿在华校一起拍的甜蜜照。

Permintaan sarang jenis biskut semakin baik

Jualan untuk kali kedua sarang jenis biskut. walaupun masih lagi rendah kuantitinya ia cukup bermakna untuk wanzulswiftlet bagi meneroka  pasaran yang lebih besar.

A new smart ventilation system

DENMARK - A new smart ventilation system helps Danish livestock producers to overcome some of the environmental challenges that the industry faces. Scientists from Aarhus University are involved in the development of the system devised by MT Højgaard Agri.

Unpleasant odours, ammonia emissions from livestock buildings and a high energy consumption pose significant environmental challenges for agriculture. In a new research project, scientists from Aarhus University are going to help develop a ventilation system which forms part of a new livestock housing concept designed by MT Højgaard Agri. The ventilation system reduces the environmental impact of livestock buildings by, among other things, reducing ammonia and odour emissions and lowering energy consumption.

"Emissions of CO2, ammonia, odour and dust are a permanent problem for the environment, for animal welfare and for the people working in the buildings. And this at the same time as agriculture is experiencing increasing demands for reductions in odour and ammonia emissions," says industrial post-doc Li Rong.

In addition to being a source of ammonia and odour, livestock buildings are also large consumers of energy, and 60 per cent of energy consumption in animal houses can be ascribed to ventilation and heating. The high energy consumption is detrimental both to the environment and to the farmer's economy.

Avian Influenza H7N7 Found in Netherlands

 

NETHERLANDS - Low pathogenic avian influenza virus H7N7 has been discovered in the village of Hagestijn, the Netherlands.

The outbreak was reported to the OIE by Dr Christianne Bruschke, Chief Veterinary Officer, Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality.

The outbreak occured on a free-range farm and was discovered during a routine check.

In total 31,870 free range laying hens were destroyed. The cause of the outbreak is unknown.

New Study Maps Hotspots of Human-animal Infectious Diseases and Emerging Disease Outbreaks

A new global study mapping human-animal diseases like tuberculosis (TB) and Rift Valley fever finds that an "unlucky" 13 zoonoses are responsible for 2.4 billion cases of human illness and 2.2 million deaths per year. The vast majority occur in low- and middle-income countries.

The report, which was conducted by the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), the Institute of Zoology (UK) and the Hanoi School of Public Health in Viet Nam, maps poverty, livestock-keeping and the diseases humans get from animals, and presents a ‘Top 20’ list of geographical hotspots.

"From cyst-causing tapeworms to avian flu, zoonoses present a major threat to human and animal health," said Delia Grace, a veterinary epidemiologist and food safety expert with ILRI in Kenya and lead author of the study. "Targeting the diseases in the hardest hit countries is crucial to protecting global health as well as to reducing severe levels of poverty and illness among the world's one billion poor livestock keepers."

"Exploding global demand for livestock products is likely to fuel the spread of a wide range of human-animal infectious diseases," Grace added.

According to the study, Ethiopia, Nigeria and Tanzania in Africa, as well as India in Asia, have the highest zoonotic disease burdens, with widespread illness and death. Meanwhile, the northeastern United States, Western Europe (especially the United Kingdom), Brazil and parts of Southeast Asia may be hotspots of "emerging zoonoses"—those that are newly infecting humans, are newly virulent, or have newly become drug resistant. The study examined the likely impacts of livestock intensification and climate change on the 13 zoonotic diseases currently causing the greatest harm to the world's poor.

The report, Mapping of Poverty and Likely Zoonoses Hotspots, was developed with support from the United Kingdom's Department for International Development (DFID). The goal of the research was to identify areas where better control of zoonotic diseases would most benefit poor people. It also updates a map of emerging disease events published in the science journal Nature in 2008 by Jones et al.

Remarkably, some 60 per cent of all human diseases and 75 per cent of all emerging infectious diseases are zoonotic. Among the high-priority zoonoses studied here are "endemic zoonoses," such as brucellosis, which cause the vast majority of illness and death in poor countries; "epidemic zoonoses," which typically occur as outbreaks, such as anthrax and Rift Valley fever; and the relatively rare "emerging zoonoses," such as bird flu, a few of which, like HIV/AIDS, spread to cause global cataclysms. While zoonoses can be transmitted to people by either wild or domesticated animals, most human infections are acquired from the world's 24 billion livestock, including pigs, poultry, cattle, goats, sheep and camels.

Intensification and Disease Spread through Zoonotic

The most rapid changes in pig and poultry farming are expected in Burkina Faso and Ghana in Africa and India, Myanmar and Pakistan in Asia. Pig and poultry farming is also intensifying more rapidly than other farm commodity sectors, with more animals being raised in more concentrated spaces, which raises the risk of disease spread. 

Assessing the likely impacts of livestock intensification on the high-priority zoonoses, the study found that livestock density is associated more with disease "event emergence" than with overall disease burdens. Both the northeastern United States and Western Europe have high densities of livestock and high levels of disease emergence (e.g., BSE, or "mad cow" disease, and Lyme disease), but low numbers of people falling sick and dying from zoonotic diseases. The latter is almost certainly due to the relatively good disease reporting and health care available in these rich countries. 

Bovine tuberculosis is a good example of a zoonotic disease that is now rare in both livestock and human populations in rich countries but continues to plague poor countries, where it infects about seven per cent of cattle, reducing their production by six per cent. Most infected cattle have the bovine form of TB, but both the human and bovine forms of TB can infect cows and people. Results of this study suggest that the burden of zoonotic forms of TB may be underestimated, with bovine TB causing up to 10 per cent of human TB cases. Human TB remains one of the most important and common human diseases in poor countries; in 2010, 12 million people suffered from active disease, with 80 per cent of all new cases occurring in 22 developing countries.

Zoonotic    =   disease can transfer from animal to human exp. TB,Birds flu, swine flu,mad cow ,Antrakh etc

Indonesia reports 9th birdflu death this year

A 37-year Indonesian man has died of avian influenza in Yogyakarta province of Indonesia, bringing the total fatality to 9 this year, health ministry said on its website on Sunday.

The man from Prambanan of Sleman district died on July 30 after being treated in hospitals, the ministry said.

Two laboratory tests confirmed that he was positive on having H5N1 virus, putting the the total death to 159 out of 191 cases since the viruses first attacked the country in 2005.

The self-employed man first felt the symtomps of the disease on July 24 with having high fever before he went to a hospital in the next day. Two days later, the man was treated in the hospital for his worsening condition and on July 29 he was shifted to another hospital.

An investigation showed that the man had possibly had contact with birds or poultry as it was found pet caged birds kept on his work place, and about 50 meters from his house there was a poulty slaugher house, as well as a cattle farm near it.

Concerns on the bird flu attacks appear in the region following the reports of the death on the H5N1 in Indonesia, Cambodia, China and Vietnam.

Indonesia is striving to produce bird flu vaccine to a sufficient level when the pandemic takes place, Health Minister Nafsiah Mboi has said.

She said that the country needed over 50,000 units vaccine to be used when pandemic occurred and to help other countries.
meaning of pandemic:
Pandemic =  spread to cause global cataclysms.

Jatropha as a New Livestock Feed Resource

FAO is encouraging the use of co-products of the energy crop, Jatropha, as new livestock feed resources to reduce food-feed competition.

At a conference organised by the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation, EMBRAPA in Brasilia dedicated to ‘Advances in the detoxification of Jatropha and castor seed cake and their use as livestock feed’, FAO presented its animal feed and feeding programme including the opportunities and challenges in utilising Jatropha co-products as livestock feed and the possibilities of generating other value-added products using a biorefinery concept.

Denda lebih berat jika dera binatang

PUTRAJAYA 13 Ogos - Rang Undang-undang Kebajikan Haiwan dijangka dibentang di Dewan Rakyat pada awal tahun depan dengan mengenakan hukuman lebih berat ke atas pesalah yang mendera binatang.

Menteri Pertanian dan Industri Asas Tani, Datuk Seri Noh Omar berkata, sehubungan itu, Jabatan Perkhidmatan Veterinar (JPV) mengajak orang ramai memberi cadangan dan maklum balas mengenai draf rang undang-undang tersebut.

''Pada 19 Jun lalu, draf ini dipaparkan di Internet selama 14 hari untuk membolehkan orang ramai memberi cadangan.

''Bermula hari ini sehingga 31 Ogos pula, draf ini akan dipaparkan buat kali kedua di Internet supaya kita boleh mengumpulkan lebih banyak maklum balas daripada pelbagai pihak," katanya pada sidang akhbar di sini hari ini.

Turut hadir, Pengarah Bahagian Pembangunan Sumber Teknologi Ternakan Kementerian Pertanian dan Industri Asas Tani, Dr. Quaza Nizamuddin dan Timbalan Ketua Pengarah Perkhidmatan Veterinar, Dr. Mohd Azmie Zakaria.

Record Heat Wave Kills Over 830,000 Farm Animals

SOUTH KOREA - Hundreds of thousands of animals have died in South Korea, the government said Wednesday, due to a heat wave that is heading for a three-week streak.Over 830,000 farm animals, including 786,512 chickens, have been killed since 20 July, when midday temperatures began hovering above 33 C in most parts of the country, according to the Ministry of Food, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, reportsYonhapNewsAgency. 
The dead animals include 40,780 ducks and 336 pigs. 
Such damages are often caused by power outages that can halt the ventilation and cooling systems at farms. 
The country was forced to issue power shortage warnings for two consecutive days this week as the sweltering weather pushed up its energy consumption to new highs, driving down its electricity levels to what officials called "dangerous levels" of less than three million kilowatts. 
"The number of animals killed may actually be greater, pending on a more thorough survey," a ministry official said, noting damages may also grow from the continuing heat wave. 
The country is also experiencing its longest streak of so-called tropical nights, where overnight temperatures stay above 25 C.

Suhu memberi kesan yang besar kepada fisiologi haiwan termasuk anak dan telur. Burung walet mempunyai had toleransi yang tertentu dengan suhu, sebab itulah ia berhati hati memilih suhu tempat pembiakan yang memberi kesan langsung kepada telur dan anak anaknya.

Vietnam H5N1 Outbreaks Reported

 

08 August 2012

VIETNAM - Six further cases of highly pathogenic avian influenza virus H5N1 have been reported to the OIE.

The six outbreaks occured between the 16-27 of July.

In total 7004 birds were susceptible. The outbreak led to 5446 cases, resulting in 29753 birds being destroyed.

The outbreaks occured in the following regions:

• Thach Hoi, Thach Ha, HA TINH
• Cam Thach, Cam Xuyen, HA TINH
• Thach Tan, Thach Ha, HA TINH
• Thach Thang, Thach Ha, HA TINH
• An Thai, An Lao, Hai Phong
• Cam Quan, Cam Xuyen, HA TINH

The cause of the outbreak is still unknown.

nitrite content a big issue in China?

In China, there are reported cases that pregnant women suffered from miscarriage after consuming blood bird nest for few months. Besides there are other health issue related to bird nest (especially blood bird nest) consumption.
Due to cumulative reported cases, the Chinese authorities investigated the issue and came to a conclusion that the nitrite content in the bird nest is the root of the problem. Therefore, the China Government put a ban on the import of bird nest from Malaysia pending the resolution of nitrite content.
The China Government insists to have zero nitrite content in bird nest, which to the bird nest industrialists are impractical to achieve. It could be achieved at a cost and thus pushing up the bird nest prices. Whether it is essential to eradicate the nitrate/nitrite content at all in bird nest is an issue for the China Government and Malaysian Government to resolve.
In fact, nitrate also presents in the drinking water. As a reference, the U.S Environment Protection Agency sets Maximum Contaminant Levels (MCL) for nitrogen in public drinking water systems. The MCL for nitrates is 10 milligrams per liter whereas nitrites one milligram per liter. These figures may be used as a yardstick to resolve the nitrite content issue.

Lawatan ke kilang proses sarang burung walet

wanzulswiftlet mengadakan lawatan dan seterusnya mewujudkan kerjasama dalan pemasaran sarang burung walet yang diproses.

Jualan sulong sarang proses

Inilah kali pertama sarang burung telah siap dicuci dapat dijual terus kepada pengguna. Keadaan tidak menentu dalam industri perladangan burung walet memaksa penternak memikir lebih daripada kebiasaan untuk terus survive. 

Mexico declares emergency over new bird flu outbreak

The Mexican government has declared a national animal health emergency in the wake of a new outbreak of bird flu that has affected some 1.7 million fowl, leaving around 870,000 dead.

“We have activated a national animal health emergency with the goal of diagnosing, preventing, controlling and eradicating the Type A, sub-type H7N3 bird flu virus,” the country’s agriculture ministry said.

The declaration implies that farmers would have to quarantine and slaughter the infected birds. Contaminated products are to be destroyed, while unaffected poultry are to be vaccinated. 

It is unclear how many of the 870,000 dead birds were culled by farmers or killed by the virus. 

The UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization also confirmed the outbreak of the epidemic. 

The H7N3 virus was detected in the western state of Jalisco, Mexico’s largest chicken-farming region, which produces 11 per cent of the country’s poultry meat and 50 per cent of its eggs.

With poultry farming making up 40 per cent of the country’s total livestock production, the economic loss from the epidemic “is and will be irreparable,” the agriculture ministry stated. 

Health officials in the country have been on high alert since the 2009 outbreak of the H1N1 virus, dubbed “swine flu.” That virus grew into a global pandemic and killed up to 17,000 people. Although there have been cases of humans being infected with the H7N3 virus elsewhere in the world, the bird flu virus is not as readily contagious as H1N1.

Masih dalam ujian

Padang rumput

Setelah 6 bulan penggunaan, Hasil sangat positif. Inovasi dalamteknik memikat burung walet tetap memberi kelebihan dan menjadikan anda lebih kompetitif yang akan meninggal saigan jauh ke belakang.

Simple Inovasi

Nampak simple je, tapi sangat berkesan untuk memikat walet muda. Kemahiran berfikir secara kritikal sangat di perlukan dalam dunia perlandangan walet sekarang kerana persaingan semakin sengit terutama kepada yang masih baru dalam bidang Animal Farming.

Simple Enovasi

Nampak simple tapi bermanfaat, begitu juga dalam industri burung walet anda perlu berfikir untuk membuat inovasi bagi mendahului saingan anda supaya terusss survive dalam perladangan burung walet.

Harga sarang burung walet masih rendah lagi

Tiada apa yang menarik tentang perladangan burung walet, sekiranya harga masih dibawah Rm 2000. Bagi mendapat sarang gred A yang hanya berharga sekitar Rm 1600 - 1800 adalah terlalu sukar kerana pemilihan untuk gred tersebut adalah lebih teliti dan rata2 pengusaha hanya layak mendapat sarang gred B dan C. DALAM keadaan sekarang kebanyakkan  pengusaha mengeluh mendapat hasil jualan yang CIPUTberbanding dulu. Bertahan dan pandai2lah menyelamat RBW anda daripada  tergadai kepada pihak lain kerana tidak mampu membayar balik pinjaman bank.

Teknik tepat dan cepat

Kalu nak guna idea ni, boleh saja, sekat ni ia tidak membahaya RBW saya

No Farmers, No Food, No Future

GLOBAL - In the wake of the Rio Conference for Sustainable Development, Copa-Cogeca welcomes the fact that sustainable agriculture and food security were considered a priority. Copa-Cogeca urges heads of state to agree on a text which recognises the important contribution farmers can make to sustainable development through environmentally sound production practices which enhance food security and the livelihood of the poor and ensure sustained economic growth.

In view of growing world food demand and limited resources, Copa-Cogeca wants to see a committed outcome to the Rio+ Conference which sets the path towards a green economy, in the context of sustainable development and poverty eradication and considers green growth as the way to using resources more efficiently without reducing profitability or production capacity. 

It leads to improved food security, eradicating hunger, while conserving land, water, biodiversity and ecosystems, and enhancing resilience to climate change and natural disasters. Enhancing agricultural research, extension services, training and education to improve agricultural productivity and sustainability through the voluntary sharing of knowledge and good practices is key to this. 

Speaker

Sudah ramiai yang mencuba dan  ramai lagi yang masih ingin mencuba. Dengarlah nasihat saya speaker diatas  tidak membantu langsung untuk menarik perhatian burung walet. Hasil tinjauan daripada 12 orang pengguna hanya 2 orang sahaja mengatakan  " Tidak Pasti" and the rest said wasted the time, forget it. Aplitude  dihasil sangat besar menyebabkan bunyi yang terhasilkan tidak memenuhi naluri burung walet.  

Indonesian Girl Dies of Bird Flu

06 July 2012

INDONESIA - An eight-year-old Indonesia girl from Karawang of West Java died after catching avian influenza, bringing the total death toll to eight this year, Health Ministry said.

The girl died in Jakarta after being treated in a hospital in the city since 28 June.

She first got the symptom of fever on June 18 and five days later the girl went to a hospital in Karawang with symptoms of cough, fever and throat problem before she was transferred to a hospital in Jakarta.

She tested positive for H5N1 virus, which put the total death to 158 out of 190 cases since the viruses first attacked the country in 2005.

An investigation indicated that the girl had had contact with poultry as she on 12 June bought 5 chickens and cooked them. She also passed the market every day on his way to school.
Bird flu had attacked Indonesia, the hardest, since 2005, and then the attacks were eased significantly. But, it has reemerged since last year, killing nine people in 2011.

There were concerns over the bird flu attacks in the region following the reports of the death resulting from the virus in Indonesia, Cambodia, China and Viet Nam.

Indonesian Health Minister Nafsiah Mboi said last month that the country was trying to produce bird flu vaccine to a sufficient level when the pandemic took place.

Another new sub- type virus A. H7N3

Global

Wabak H7N3 menular di Mexico

4 Julai 2012

Mexico isytihar darurat berikutan penularan wabak H7N3 yang kian membimbangkan.

MEXICO CITY - Mexico mengisytiharkan darurat terhadap status kesihatan haiwan selepas 1.7 juta haiwan ternakan dijangkiti wabak selsema burung.

Kementerian Pertanian dalam kenyataan memberitahu, lebih separuh ayam dan itik dijangkiti virus itu mati dan dimusnahkan.

"Kami terpaksa mengisytiharkan darurat ke atas kesihatan haiwan bagi mengawal, mencegah dan membasmi virus Type A, selesema burung Sub-Type H7N3," menurut kenyataan itu.

Kumpulan pegawai kesihatan Mexico kini dalam keadaan berwaspada bagi mengelak berulangnya wabak H1N1 yang pernah menyebabkan kematian 17,000 manusia.

Terkini, virus dikesan di Mexico adalah H7N3, yang berpotensi mengakibatkan manusia dijangkiti.

Wabak berkenaan mula dikesan pada 20 Jun lalu dengan dua juta ternakan telah dijangkiti.

Aroma LZ

            Aroma yang masih dalam percubaan

Teknik baru untuk Nesting plank

Sesuatu teknik yang baru hendak diperkenalkan pada nestinng plank, ia perlu diteliti dari segi behavior burung walet ditempat asal atau burung itu sendiri sudah adapted dengan persekitaran yang anda sediakan untuk mereka kerana NP adalah bahagian terpenting (tempat  pembiakan ) dan termpat yang paling lama bagi Bw tinggal ( cling ). Sekiranya NP tidak memenuhi keperluan Anatomi ( kerangka/struktur ) dan fisiologi ( Fungsi ) burung walet maka naluri burung walet menolak tempat pembiakan tersebut.
Percubaan anda untuk memperkenalkan sesuatu teknik baru seharusnya tidak berlawanan dengan kedua dua keperluan tersebut.

Jerebu

Menganggu burung walet dan kondisi dalaman RBW

Ara liar bukit

Ara merah kembali lagi

Sekiranya anda ingin menggunakan pokok arau ntuk memikat burung walet, saya sarankan ara merah penang lebih baik kerana buahnya lebat sampai ke ranting dan keadaan ini memudahkan walet memburu serangga diatas canopy. keaadaan Daun yang agak jarang berbanding dengan ara2 lain, ini juga memberi kelebihan kepada burung walet memburu mangsanya.
Hampir setiap petang burung walet berpusing pusing memburu serangga diatas canopy pokok ara ini bila buahnya mula masak. 

Suara menghasikan 80 sarang tempoh 12 bulan

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Indonesia produce birds flu vaccine

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Antimicrobials that Destroy Bacteria, Solve Resistance

26 June 2012

US - US Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists have developed a new method to create antimicrobials that kill disease-causing pathogens. These antimicrobials can be used as an alternative to antibiotics.

Growing concerns about antibiotic resistance to certain strains of bacteria and increasing restrictions on the use of antibiotics in animals has accelerated the need to find alternatives. Scientists with the Agricultural Research Service (ARS), the chief intramural scientific agency of USDA, are working to provide new strategies for enhancing production and improving overall animal health. This research supports the USDA priority of promoting international food security.

The patented technology for designing pathogen-targeted antimicrobials is the work of molecular biologist David Donovan at the ARS Henry A. Wallace Beltsville Agricultural Research Centre (BARC) in Beltsville, Maryland. Mr Donovan works in the center's Animal Biosciences and Biotechnology Laboratory.

Viruses that infect bacteria, called bacteriophages (phages), produce enzymes that can be used to kill pathogens. These novel enzymes have been shown to be effective in killing pathogens like streptococci and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, also known as MRSA.
Collaborating with industry, university and federal scientists, Mr Donovan demonstrated that these particular enzymes have molecular domains that can be isolated and will act independently of their protein surroundings. They kill bacteria by eating or chewing up the walls of cells.

The enzymes can be manipulated to create an antimicrobial that targets and kills only specific pathogens. This greatly reduces the probability that non-targeted bacteria will develop resistance.

Test lokasi Sg Bakap penang

Ribuan burung walet datang semasa ujian lokasi di Sg bakap. Lokasi walet memburu serangga

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Enjoy the video..walet beratur masuk dalam RBW pertama

Artis ini Hina Isteri Nabi Muhammad S.A.W.

Islamic Scholars Reject Machine Slaughter

18 June 2012

UK - Leading Islamic scholars have unanimously rejected the automated slaughter of halal poultry using machines with rotary blades, insisting each animal must be killed with a hand held knife.

According to HalalFocus.com, some 35 scholars attended a debate on religious slaughter and all rejected the mechanisation of the procedure under halal law, according to the meeting organiser, Naved Syed, a member of Eblex’s halal steering group.

The issue is controversial, however, with some halal organisations reported to take a more pragmatic view and apparently agreeing to automated slaughter under certain conditions. It is also a delicate matter for enforcement authorities aware of the highly sensitive nature of religious slaughter.

While the meeting was happy with Food Standards Agency guidelines to local authority enforcement officers on halal food issues the scholars expressed concerns that correct practices were being ignored in many cases.

According to the guidelines slaughtermen must use a sharp knife to sever the jugular veins and carotid arteries as well as the oesophagus and trachea of animals, but not the spinal cord as this restricts convulsion, which in turn restricts the pumping out of blood.

However Syed said machine slaughter methods did result in the spinal cord being cut in 5 per cent of cases.

A survey last year showed that of 4.7 million birds slaughtered in one week using so-called halal procedures only 1.2 million used the correct manual method.

Mr Syed said: “If you are going to do halal you must do it properly.” He rejected a suggestion that following correct halal procedures was not practical on a modern, fast moving, poultry slaughterline, insisting that up to 8,000 birds an hour could be processed if four extra slaughtermen were employed."

He predicted that the rejection of automated slaughter methods by the scholars and the proper enforcement of halal manual methods would lead to legal challenges by some companies.

He added that although he organised the meeting he was not allowed to speak in the debate.

Masood Khawaji, president of the non profit authenticating body the Halal Food Authority, said mechanical slaughter methods have become necessary and some scholars and clerics are living in the past. “We have to look to the future,” he said.

Mechanised slaughter of poultry and animals under halal procedures should be permitted provided some criteria are met including ensuring that the animal is not dead before slaughter and blood is drained from the body.

mampukah pakatan rakyat ke putrajaya?

bena pakatan rakyat gak di kota bharu

influenza viruses

The 1918 flu pandemic (the "Spanish flu") was an influenza pandemic, and the first of the two pandemics involving H1N1 influenza virus (the second was the 2009 flu pandemic, an outbreak of swine flu). It was an unusually severe and deadly pandemic that spread across the world. 
The pandemic lasted from June 1918 to December 1919,^[3] spreading even to the Arctic and remote Pacific islands. Between 50 and 100 million died, making it one of the deadliest natural disasters in human history.




This is a common occurrence with influenza viruses: there is a tendency for pathogenic viruses to become less lethal with time, providing more living hosts.^[10]

Can Bird Flu-Resistant Chickens be Developed?

ANALYSIS - Could the answer to breeding a bird that is resistant to bird flu be drawing near? According to researchers at Roslin Institute at Edinburgh University in Scotland and Cambridge University, the day could be drawing near, writes Chris Harris.

The research in to genetically modifying chickens that did not pass on avian influenza was reported about two years ago.

But since that breakthrough, everything appears to have gone quiet on the research.

The original research developed genetically modified (transgenic) chickens that do not transmit avian influenza to other chickens with which they are in contact.

The genetic modification has the potential to stop bird flu outbreaks spreading within poultry flocks.

At the time, the scientists said that the breakthrough would not only protect the health of domestic poultry but could also reduce the risk of bird flu epidemics leading to new flu virus epidemics in the human population.

To produce these chickens, the Cambridge and Edinburgh scientists introduced a new gene that manufactures a small "decoy" molecule that mimics an important control element of the bird flu virus. The replication machinery of the virus is tricked into recognising the decoy molecule instead of the viral genome and this interferes with the replication cycle of the virus.

When the transgenic chickens were infected with avian flu, they became sick but did not transmit the infection on to other chickens kept in the same pen with them. This was the case even if the other chickens were normal (non-transgenic) birds.

The next steps in the research were expected to be the development of birds that not only did not pass on the virus but were also resistant.

However, the research hit funding problems and little has been heard on the matter since.

Now, the research team is hopeful of gaining new funding within the next few months that will enable them to carry on the research to develop birds that are resistant to avian flu H5N1.

Professor Helen Sang, from The Roslin Institute at the University of Edinburgh, said that her research colleagues at Cambridge, headed by Dr Laurence Tiley, had been developing transgenic models in the lab and the results of the trials with cells in culture had been encouraging.

"We have had some trials that look encouraging, but we won't know until we have carried out trials in birds," Professor Sang said.

She said that the research team is hoping for more funding to come through later this year and then the trials with birds can be started.

If the trials prove successful, the prospect of a commercialised avian flu resistant bird could have huge potential for the industry. However, the question of genetic modification always runs the risk of public rejection.

The outcry that has surrounded trials of GM crops in the UK in recent months, let alone the public uproar criticism that followed the news that products from genetically modified dairy cattle could have entered the food chain places big question marks over how a transgenic avian flu resistant chicken will be received.

When the initial research was published in 2010, the research team said that they felt that the public reaction would be positive and good.

The researchers said: "We believe the attitude of the UK public to GM food depends on the nature and purpose of the genetic modification. Disease resistance is clearly a beneficial characteristic for animal welfare and public health.

"The public's awareness of the global threat of influenza is high. We hope that examples that demonstrate clear consumer benefits with no inherent risk will encourage constructive debate about the potential of GM food in the future.

"Ultimately the British public will need to see how they benefit from eating genetically modified food, before they are likely to make the decision to do so."

Professor Sang said: "Using genetic modification to introduce genetic changes that cannot be achieved by animal breeding demonstrates the potential of GM to improve animal welfare in the poultry industry. This work could also form the basis for improving economic and food security in many regions of the world where bird flu is a significant problem."

And she told ThePoultrySite that she felt the public was prepared "to consider this an option" and felt the trials were well worthwhile continuing.

Certainly, if successful, this research could have dramatic benefits not only for the poultry industry but for other livestock sectors as the research team believes that the same techniques can be adapted for other species and other requirements and disease - but only if the public can be convinced first.

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