Agricultural Commodities
Moves by Finnish meat company Atria to move into the antibiotic-free chicken (ABF) market as part of its ‘Healthy Growth’ strategy has boosted its financial returns.
While the annual IPPE trade show is a great way for big companies to showcase their latest launches, it is also a melting pot of smaller businesses marketing interesting products, as Poultry World discovered.
Recent years have seen an explosion in the availability of “free-from” foods for consumers increasingly concerned about the traceability and healthiness of food. After pioneering in the area cage-free eggs the industry now needs to rise to the challenge again as antibiotic free chicken looks set to become a staple of supermarkets and restaurants.
Birds selected for higher levels of natural antibodies have a higher immune response, according to newly published Dutch research.
Poultry World visited Aviagen’s hatchery in the West Midlands, where we caught up with a company that is collaborating with IBM to provide blockchain technology to improve worker safety and chick welfare through a smart sanitising process.
Poultry World, in cooperation with Schothorst Feed Research, Kemin and Dupont, will host a new webinar on Poultry Health on 10 April 2018. Join our experts and attend the webinar for free.
French scientists have been working to develop a DNA prime/protein boost vaccine protocol against Campylobacter jejuni for poultry with some success.
Although early feed restriction in broilers reduces growth performance, compensatory growth in the refeeding period will be attained to accelerate growth so as to reach the target weight of birds at the time of marketing.
More egg producers are switching from bought-in feed to tailored, home-mixed rations which can offer a greater level of flexibility, improved layer productivity and cost management.
Having the job of protecting the food chain from disease is like being an air traffic controller: no one notices when you do it right, but as soon as something goes wrong, and there is an outbreak of food poisoning or airplane crash, everyone is aware.
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