Patent ID: 6840195

Claim:
A method of avian treatment or pest control comprising the steps of: selecting a medicament or pest control release agent; providing impregnable devices with impregnation of the selected medicament or pest control release agent for thereafter exuding or flowing out slowly over time; providing a plurality of avian specimens for collective medicament or pest control treatments and selecting at least one but not all as carrier specimen(s), the remainder being reckoned as non-carrier specimens; fastening one and another impregnable devices to each carrier specimen by a fastener piercing through some chosen anatomy thereof, said fastener fastening one impregnable device aside an entry wound and another impregnable device aside the exit wound, wherein said fasteners and impregnable devices are sized small to minimize stress or other ill effects on the health or productivity of carrier specimens, each of whose natural movements over time are consequently anticipated upon to disperse the release agent across his or her body through the oil and wax of his or her feathers; and promoting interactions between said carrier and non-carrier specimens such that rubbing contact therebetween transfers release agent onto the non-carrier specimens; wherein interactions between carrier and non-carrier specimens are promoted by combining high-density rearing in pens or barns with established provisions around which there will be much crowding and jostling as common feeding or watering provisions.