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Natural Antioxidants for Feed Vitamins
All recognised vitamins with the exception of vitamin C are dietary essentials for poultry nutrition, and each is required for normal metabolism, health and growth. Feed ingredients such as corn, soybean meal a...
Author: Justin Yu-Wen Tan (D.V.M.)
Publication date: 06/16/2009    Rating:    Views: 317

Ban on AGPS in the EU: impact on the Asian Poultry Industry
As the European Union moves closer toward implementing its ban on the remaining feed grade antibiotics growth promoters in January 2006, the Asian poultry markets are on their toes and closely observing the sit...
Author: Justin Tan Yu-Wen (D.V.M.)
Publication date: 06/09/2009    Rating:    Views: 383

Avian Gout: Causes Treatment And Prevention
Today’s bird is genetically engineered for higher productivity. Selection of birds is based on production parameters. In the process, the health of the vital organs is ignored. This has resulted in increa...
Author: Dr. M.T.Banday, Dr. Mukesh Bhakt and Dr. Sheikh Adil Hamid - Srinagar, Kashmir, India
Publication date: 05/26/2009    Rating:    Views: 1359

How Much Moisture Do Brooders Add to Poultry Houses?
The vast majority of poultry growers use unvented heating units, i.e. brooders or space furnaces, to heat their poultry houses, using propane or natural gas as fuel sources. Record high propane/natural gas pric...
Author: Y. Liang1 and G.T. Tabler - University of Arkansas Cooperative Extension Service, Division of ...
Publication date: 05/19/2009    Rating:    Views: 645

E-CAT: Building trust on reliability and precision
Poultry production, considered one of the relatively less affected meat lines in these times of financial turmoil, still needs a lot of help from companies like E-CAT which provides precise hatchery automation ...
Author: Arianne M. PEREZ (MEAT & LIVESTOCK BUSINESS ASIA / April-May 2009) - Courtesy of E-CAT (Egg-Ch...
Publication date: 05/11/2009    Rating:    Views: 589

Management to Minimize Reduction in Fertility and Hatchability Late in Lay
In all avian species, as well as in other animals in the animal kingdom, increasing age has an adverse effect on reproductive success. The age related decrease in reproduction in the commercial fowl is due, in ...
Author: R. Keith Bramwell, Extension Specialist - Center of Excellence for Poultry Science - Universit...
Publication date: 05/05/2009    Rating:    Views: 502

Artificial Incubation
Artificial incubation of poultry eggs is an ancient practice. Aristotle writing in the year 400 B.C. told of Egyptians incubating eggs spontaneously in dung heaps. The Chinese developed artificial incubation at...
Author: Joe G. Berry, Extension Poultry Specialist - Oklahoma State University Cooperative Extension F...
Publication date: 04/28/2009    Rating:    Views: 743

Effects of Water Acidification on Turkey Performance
Acidification of the drinking water has become very popular in the broiler industry as a tool for improving bird performance. However, little is known about the exact effects of water acidification on weight ga...
Author: Jana Cornelison, Melony Wilson and Susan Watkins, Cooperative Extension Service - University o...
Publication date: 04/06/2009    Rating:    Views: 629

Gumboro
Gumboro Disease or Infectious Bursal Disease (IBD) is one of the most common diseases of commercial poultry in Asia. In the clinical acute form (vvIBDV), the disease causes significant economic losses due to mo...
Author: Dr Yonatan (Yoni) Segal - Australia
Publication date: 03/30/2009    Rating:    Views: 992

Broiler Farming Needs Revolutionary Changes in Brooding Procedures
Present day, broiler farming has become as much expensive as it has never been though. In countries like Pakistan majority of the broiler farmers are no more capable of continuing their broiler farming, due to ...
Author: Dr. Saadat Ali Changezi D.V.M
Publication date: 03/27/2009    Rating:    Views: 662