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To fulfil the increase in demand for poultry meat there was a selection for higher growth-rate and breast-yield chicken hybrids. However, improved live performances have been accompanied by an increased incidence of muscle abnormalities such as wooden breast: visually hard, out-bulging and pale areas on the ventral surface of the Pectoralis major muscle.
Self-sufficiency in poultry and egg production around one of Africa’s largest cities is being hindered by a number of factors, according to a study produced by Dutch research specialists Wageningen Livestock Research.
One of the largest US poultry companies has announced that it will stop using antibiotics considered medically important for humans for disease prevention in its live poultry operations.
As a poultry producer, intestinal inflammation is a health condition you should understand. It may be having a negative impact on the productivity of your poultry operation without you even realising it.
Last year, Chicken Farmers of Canada (CFC) began its first ever Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), and the results give broiler producers around the world much food for thought. The analysis also includes a look at how far the industry has come from the mid-1970s, and provides benchmarks that can be used to measure future improvements.
Overall, you could say that Belgian turkey farmer Michiel Vanoverberghe (25) benefits from Europe’s best. His turkeys go to Germany, their manure to France, Belgian regulations apply and their feed comes from the Netherlands.
Producers and policy makers need to do more to address the mistrust and misconceptions the public have about production systems and interventions associated with production diseases.
Good hygiene and herd management measures and design of poultry houses can add value to livestock value chains. But interventions are not economically or societally preferred per se because their financial and social viability is dependent on the characteristics of the interventions.
Global agricultural player Cargill is continuing the expansion of its poultry operations with major investments in Latin America, the Far East and South East Asia within the last week.
An egg spray disinfection practice can reduce the risk of transmission via the eggshell of E.coli from breeders to the offspring.
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