date:Aug 09, 2012
Neither the egg, nor the chick, when it hatches, will haveSalmonellaif a layer hen is not infected with the bacteria. There is a timelined vaccine effect that will be logged and sequenced during the study, beginning from a newly-hatched chicken, to the 18-20 weeks before the chicken becomes a layer hen, and, after that, until the end of the hen's productive life, the company said.
Researchers will inject the vaccine, called Salmogenics, directly into the egg before the chick is hatched. Once ha