Turkey farming Technical Articles
Article published the April 6, 2009:
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...
Article published the January 7, 2009:
Arkansas is ranked third in turkey production nationally, outpaced only by Minnesota and North Carolina. Each year the primary turkey breeders supply the industry with birds that are genetically capable of fast...
Article published the May 22, 2008:
Corona viruses are small viruses that are named corona because it has projections on its surface that resemble a crown. The viruses are widespread in nature and are responsible for respiratory and enteric disea...
Article published the March 13, 2008:
How much ammonia is your litter producing? Wide variations are found between flocks in how much ammonia is released every hour from the litter. In ten week old turkey flocks, moist, composted litter can produce...
Article published the July 27, 2007:
Poult enteritis and mortality syndrome (PEMS) was first observed in 1991 and has developed into one of the worst diseases to have afflicted commercial turkeys. Until 1994 PEMS was contained in North Carolina, S...
Article published the July 16, 2007:
Bacillus spores are emerging as a leading class of dietary direct-fed microbial (probiotic) performance enhancers for broiler chickens and turkeys, when antibiotics are removed, because they typically are effec...
Article published the July 10, 2007:
Histomoniasis (infectious enterohepatitis) is a disease of broiler chickens on litter or exposed to range and is caused by the fragile protozoa Histomonas meleagridis (Skinner, 2000). First symptoms are a decli...
Article published the April 26, 2007:
The search for alternatives to the use of antibiotics and antimicrobial growth promoters has been encouraged by consumer fear of antibiotic residue in meat producing animals and the possible increase in bacteri...
Article published the April 17, 2007:
During the past 50 years, the poultry industry has progressed in several areas of nutrition, genetics, engineering, management and communications toward maximizing the efficiency of growth performance (weight f...
Article published the March 22, 2007:
Improving the avian immune system will require knowledge of how chickens defend themselves against pathogens naturally. Presumably, once the details of the protection mechanisms are known they might be manipula...