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Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4

Authors

P Smetana

Keywords

Fowl pox virus, Vaccination, Western Australia

First Page Number

355

Last Page Number

357

ISSN

0021-8618

Abstract

FOR many years the standard procedure for fowl pox prevention on West Australian poultry farms has been to vaccinate young stock at 12 weeks of age. Although most farmers have used this system successfully it has a number of weaknesses which can be overcome by day-old vaccination.

A new day-old fowl pox vaccine now on the market has many advantages over the normal vaccine, which is used at about 12 weeks old.

In tests at the Poultry Research Station it gave satisfactory results.

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