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Poultry and pig farmers are failing to make the most of digitalisation because they are not joining up big data sets, which could help them make early interventions to mitigate diseases or even predict them.
Production diseases can cause major financial losses to poultry farmers if not controlled effectively.
Floor eggs from broiler breeders cannot be recommended for use as they pose an E.coli infection risk and increase horizontal transmission in the hatchery.
Poor floor quality and a failure to stop visitors from entering poultry units are two areas where broiler farmers are failing to embrace high biosecurity standards.
Hopes of a vaccine breakthrough against Mycoplasma gallisepticum, which causes severe injury in poultry, have been boosted by a two-year million dollar licensing deal.
The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has produced a hazard identification and ranking for poultry at slaughter following discussions with EU Member States representatives.
Having great genetic potential is one thing, making the most of it is another. That’s why the recent Lohmann distributor meeting focused on management. Both sharing the latest insights, and revisiting more well-known practices that might still need attention.
‘’With good entrepreneurship and well thought out choices a broiler grower really can make a difference,” says French broiler farmer Stéphane Dahirel. Poultry World paid a visit to his operation with three locations and a total of 130,000 birds in the town of Lanouee, Brittany, and asked Dahirel why he made certain decisions.
Mark Lyons succeeded his father as president of the global animal nutrition business Alltech this year. He sat down with Poultry World to discuss the direction of the business and the legacy left by his dad.
Historically, the poultry industry has addressed common production challenges, such as respiratory, digestive or locomotion conditions, poor footpad integrity, and carcass defects and condemnation, as singular issues. We now understand that there is a common root cause that links these production issues: chronic or imbalanced inflammation.
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