Elevated grids offer birds an opportunity to rest in a species-specific manner and can improve welfare, especially for medium growing chickens.
Dramatic increase in antibiotics resistance worldwide has led to the ban of their use as growth promoters in many countries and to a higher demand for efficient and cost-effective alternatives. In this context, a specific Copper exchanged clay (CeC), was developed as such as an alternative.
Global poultry experienced gradually improving market conditions in the first half of the year due to a more balanced supply in key trading markets such as Brazil, Thailand, the United States and the European Union.
Exposing poultry to UV light boosts vitamin D content in eggs and can help people suffering from brittle bones.
Reduction of veterinary antibiotics sales by 63% in the Netherlands between 2009 and 2017 showed no evidence of a negative effect on either average production or economic results for broiler farmers.
French companies set the bar in this year’s Good Farm Animal Welfare Awards, scooping a number of accolades in the annual competition run by Compassion in World Farming.
Plans to develop novel plant-based vaccines to prevent Newcastle Disease are underway as part of a joint UK academic/research institute project.
Disease prevention is certainly very much to the fore, as it is such an integral part of sustainable poultry production. One could say that currently, it is one of the most used terms in global poultry production.
A new preliminary study in Canada examines how technology used in hospitals can boost protocol compliance rates on poultry farms.
UK supermarkets have reported a small increase in the highest level of campylobacter contamination.
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