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US 5,311,841 AGranted
Administration of medicaments of poultry
OwnerJ. Paul Thaxtoninventor
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Abstract
A method for the delivery of medicaments to newly hatched poultry. A vaccine or other medicament is injected into the yolk sac of a newly hatched chick, and is released to the chick's system as the yolk is absorbed by the chick. An injection device is shown having one or optionally a pair of guide services for guiding a chick axially of a hypodermic needle during an injection procedure to reduce damage to the injection site.
Claims11
A method for the delivery of medicaments to newly hatched, domestically raised poultry, comprising the steps of:
- (a) sequentially and individually orienting the poultry in a manner that facilitates access to the skin covering the residual yolk sac of each individual chick, and
- (b) injecting an effective amount of the medicament thorough the skin and into the yolk sac of each oriented chick.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.