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Dr. Juan Lubroth, senior animal health officer for the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization, said he would like to have at least 20 more veterinarians right now to send to Indonesia and Turkey simply to train brigades of cullers and would need more for each country the disease reaches. The total cost would depend on whether he can borrow government veterinarians from wealthy countries or has to hire privately and whether he sends a few to lead workshops in the capital or dozens into small villages to supervise culling. He is also negotiating with a Dutch company to bring its portable chicken-killing machines to southeast Asia. In Turkey, farmers get up to $3.50 a chicken, which Dr. Lubroth, said was about 60% of market value. He favored paying market value for birds from infected flocks, slightly more for those from healthy flocks nearby, and nothing for dead birds.