(exclusive) the truth of egg shortage! For the first time in China, there was a problem with the vaccine in the chicken breeding farm, and millions of chickens died suddenly, but the Prevention and Inspection Bureau did not know it at all.

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The "egg shortage" has emerged throughout Taiwan, and the chicken farm is even more serious! At the beginning of the year, the land price for egg production reached 36.5 yuan per jin, a 20-year high. The Council of Agriculture attributed the shortage of eggs to Rain Water's flooded chicken farm last year, opening up imported eggs to stabilize egg prices, but according to an investigation by upstream and downstream reporters, the source of the imbalance between supply and demand is the first "egg breeding farm" in Taiwan's history.

In 106, a rare failure to vaccinate breeder hens resulted in the death of more than 2 million "sea blue" laying hens infected with Marek virus. Half a year later, Rain Water flooded southern Taiwan, killing 600000 laying hens, causing another heavy blow to the domestic laying hen supply chain, resulting in a feeding fault. Chinese hens can only rely on the "old hens" on the farm to support the farm, which also makes the gap of eggs bigger and bigger.

Problems in breeding farms have seriously affected the shortage of layers downstream, but in the face of a major crisis, the Council of Agriculture has no knowledge of the epidemic. Feng Haidong, director of the Prevention and Inspection Bureau, said that no cases of Marek's disease have been reported from egg farms, and whether there is any vaccine failure needs to be investigated. What's the truth about the egg-laying scene? The "upstream and downstream" reporter visited the chicken farm to take you to find out.

The emergence of "egg shortage" in Taiwan and even more serious "chicken shortage" in chicken farms. Last year, chicken farms failed to be vaccinated, coupled with 823 flooding, which seriously damaged the layer supply chain 2.

There is something wrong with the vaccine in the egg breeding farm, affecting 4 million laying hens. The chicks and Chinese chickens can't make up for it, so they can only rely on the "old hens" on the farm to lay eggs. (photo / Lin Xiejun)

Outbreaks, abnormal climate, problems with underground vaccines?

Winter is a good season for bird flu, but insiders all know that the epidemic can be seen from the price of eggs. "if the price of eggs is very low, it means that everyone is raising well and there is nothing wrong with them. on the contrary, when there is an outbreak, egg prices will begin to rise. this is a problem of supply and demand." C egg farmer from Pingtung observed that the frequency of outbreaks in China and the mortality rate of chickens increased last year, and the timing of the outbreak also tended to be earlier.

In the past, 30 to 40 weeks old was the time when chickens were most likely to be infected with bird flu, and now it also happens early. "in the past, when chickens got sick, they might recover in a few days, but now even strong chickens can't stop it, and all of them have been infected all the time." Chicken farmers speculate that bird flu is obviously localized. At the same time, they also believe that the emergency of the epidemic may have something to do with the underground vaccination of a small number of chicken farms, which has led to a bigger breach in epidemic prevention.

C egg farmers admitted that an epidemic also broke out on the farm last year, killing nearly half of the laying hens, cleaning up an average of 2000 chicken carcasses a day, seriously affecting their own egg supply. However, he stresses that consumers generally have a misunderstanding of "poisoned eggs." after seeing the outbreak of bird flu in chicken farms, they dare not eat eggs for several days. "in fact, chickens suffering from bird flu will not lay eggs at all!" I hope consumers don't panic too much.

In addition, egg farmers do not rule out that climatic factors such as overheating and large temperature differences are one of the reasons affecting the efficiency of egg production last year. Egg farmers explain that laying hens are not afraid of cold but only of heat. When the temperature exceeds 34 degrees Celsius, the hens will not stand it. The eggs laid are relatively small and resemble "extra eggs," or they may stop laying eggs at all. It is necessary to keep the room temperature below 28 degrees Celsius in order not to weaken the egg production capacity. 24 degrees is the favorite temperature for laying hens.

Committee of Agriculture: no case of Marek's disease has been reported from the laying hens.

In the face of the shortage of eggs in the country, Li Yiqian, head of the Poultry production Section of the Animal Husbandry Department of the Council of Agriculture, pointed out that the loss of at least 600000 laying hens in August last year was the main cause of the egg shortage, coupled with the fact that climate change affected the egg production rate and the huge increase in demand for eggs during the New year's festival. this year's "egg shortage" is particularly serious and is not affected by the epidemic. Feng Haidong, director of the Prevention and Inspection Bureau, also said that no cases of Marek's disease have been reported from egg farms, and if we want to further understand whether there is a problem of vaccine failure, we need to restart investigations and interviews with relevant operators. It is also stressed that for highly pathogenic bird flu or other chicken infectious diseases, epidemic prevention agencies in various places are monitoring the epidemic.

However, according to the reporter's understanding, this (21) morning, Xie Yaoqing, director of the Animal Husbandry Department of the Council of Agriculture, and the Central Livestock Association went south to Chiayi to hold a "Symposium on Egg production and Marketing Information" to learn about the current egg production and discuss the follow-up production and marketing regulation. in the scheduled report, the first item states: "the failure of Marek vaccine in breeding hens in November (106) and the loss of laying hens caused by floods in (107) 823." It is obvious that the authorities have heard of the outsourced situation of the breeder farm. (the article is not finished to be continued)

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