38.000 Ekor Ayam Mati Mendadak di Sidrap
Flu burung (ist) Bird flu (ist)
Makassar - About 38 thousand chickens in Rappang Sidenreng District, South Sulawesi, died suddenly due to positive for bird flu infection.

Head of the South Sulawesi Provincial Livestock Murtala Ali in Makassar, said on Thursday that this event occurred since 18 June, the biggest hit on the kind of laying hens.

"The population of laying hens is greatest there. Chickens that died consisted of 31 664 laying hens, 6,000 and 693 broiler chicken," he said.

He explained that the sudden death of chickens in large numbers it can actually be prevented if residents quickly reported it.

On June 18 last, as many as 500 chickens owned by the farmers in the village of Wanio, District Panca Lautang die together, then followed the death of chickens in the village of Lanrang, and the village of Bulo Tanete.

Currently, the Animal Husbandry Department Sidrap are conducting monitoring and spraying disinfectant on the island Simorang which is the largest village chicken production centers in Sidrap.

For the incident DVO Sidrap, forming a team went to the location, since the bird flu virus is spreading very fast. But the Department did not perform culling only spraying disinfectant, she said.

"There is no compensation fund set up government, so we do not destroy," he said.

To eliminate the effects of infection, the Animal Husbandry Department has also stopped the traffic distribution of Sidrap chicken into other areas. But it is not done strictly because Sidrap is one of the centers of the chicken and egg producers in South Sulawesi.

Sidrap chicken population reached 3,439,556 in the tail, consisting of 2,023,375 laying hens and chickens 1150 villages and the rest is the broiler.