Whole-house Gassing
A humane solution for large flocks to rapidly reduce disease spread. Contact Us
A high capacity on-farm solution for improved disease control.
Whole-house gassing (WHG) is DEFRA’s preferred large-scale depopulation solution, as it is a non-invasive depopulation method that protects healthy livestock, as well as human health, safeguarding your operations and minimising the financial burden.
Recent outbreaks of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI), particularly the H5N1 and H7N7 strains of AI, have demonstrated how contagious, expensive, and damaging it can be when disease is not contained effectively, highlighting the need for improved solutions for farm businesses.
Why use whole-house gassing?
Recent outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza have demonstrated how contagious, expensive, and damaging it can be when diseases are not contained.
Reducing the need for manual handling, WHG is a non-invasive depopulation method that protects healthy livestock and human health, safeguarding your operations and minimising the financial burden.
Key Benefits
- Portable and mobile for ease of use regardless of farm layout
- Constant injection of CO2 to ensure effective and humane depopulation
- Ability to cull large numbers of birds simultaneously
- Minimal set up time required
- No damage to internal structure or external farm property
- All required equipment can be thoroughly disinfected after use
- Occurs in birds’ own sheds for familiarity
- No manual handling involved to minimise animal distress
- Birds fall unconscious within minutes
Effective WHG, undertaken by the experienced Livetec team
Livetec are able to attend your site to determine the best methods for depopulation and should this be the best option, we are able to complete this within a number of days.
All of our services are followed by a preliminary cleansing and disinfection stage. The essential secondary stage of cleansing and disinfection needs to be carried out by the farmers themselves. Read more about that here.
WHG with Livetec. Want to know more?
Our WHG is an on-demand contracted service for efficient large-scale culling provided by the UK’s leading depopulation and biosecurity experts dedicated to reducing disease spread.
