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Mortality rates due to feather pecking can be reduced through breeding, according to new European research published this week.
Locating large polluting poultry and pig farms have for some time caused issues for environmental regulators in the United States.
The poultry sector had its fair share of disease problems. Avian influenza, mainly caused by wild birds, has hit the industry hard. That said, we are able to cope with the new reality and even if the disease hits, it doesn’t take long to restock our houses.
A broiler bird’s first seven days represents a quarter of its life, and the period at which growth is fastest. One nutritionist explains how important a role feed has to play in that performance, and some of the elements that make up diet formulation.
Balancing bird welfare with the public’s love affair with large eggs has prompted one company to produce an e-book for farmers to help them manage the issue.
In running a hatchery with a capacity of 2 million eggs a week, it is the small improvements that make all the difference. Pornthep Chongkol, manager of the Betagro hatchery in Chaibadan Thailand has an eye for detail and walks Poultry World through his facility.
In the developed world it is becoming increasingly hard to source labour to do some of the less pleasant tasks on poultry farms, and some argue that a key way to improve welfare is to improve the amount of environmental monitoring that takes place on farm. Here, we review a project to develop a device, and consider some alternatives that are already on the market.
Tests to see if official control laboratories across the European Union are able to find fipronil in eggs have shown the overwhelming majority of participants were able to do so.
Trials in research centres and field studies have confirmed that when distributed continuously to broilers during starter and grower phases, macroalgae can accelerate the shift from innate to adaptive immunity, improve gut protection and improve technical performance.
Animal nutrition, health and feed supplement company Alltech is joining forces with Nottingham Trent University in the UK to examine the impact of different forms of mineral on phytase in poultry diets.
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