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🚨NEW🚨: We requested and received documents related to the mass extermination of chickens on farms in Buena Vista County, Iowa, in response to the 2021-2022 bird flu outbreak. Those documents detailed the use of Ventilation Shutdown Plus (VSD+) to kill all of the birds on six farms, after bird flu was detected.
The documents Animal Outlook obtained revealed that some birds remained alive after being subjected to between one and a half and nearly five hours of VSD+, and the remaining animals were killed either by being gassed or having their skulls manually or mechanically severed from their spinal columns.
Further, the documents expose instances when VSD+ was ineffective due to poor insulation and “lack of attention to detail” when wrapping the barns to cut off air flow.