Adopting a more local and flexible approach could be key to boosting small-scale chicken production in Ethiopia, according to a recently published study.
Scientists at a university in the United States have identified a new structure of neurons in the poultry brain that may be the starting point for some stress response signals.
A three year, €1.4m European Union LIFE project to look at how poultry manure could enhance soils across southern Europe is underway.
Global poultry genetics firm Cobb-Vantress has launched its first unit in Colombia this week and is also looking at meeting the growing demands of the Ecuadorian poultry market.
Hopes are rising that a new vaccine strategy could offer protection to millions of chickens threated by avian infectious bronchitis.
Latest Danish research on the welfare of layers in cages has shown a deterioration of plumage and keel bone damage accelerates, as birds get older.
Industrial company Evonik has become the latest firm to provide investment support to the poultry sector’s bid to solve the issue of male chick culling.
Leaving the European Poultry Conference in September, I was slightly worried that my luggage weight limit would be exceeded, such was the amount of literature picked up over the course of the event.
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