Poultry Industry Technical Articles
Article published the October 20, 2011:
Introduction
The shortage of conventional food for Monogastrics species, due to high price, has encouraged the exploration of unconventional foods (Nieves, 2006). In this context, by-products of citrus and sug...
Article published the October 20, 2011:
Introduction
Eggshell quality is an important parameter to insure egg safety for consumers and to optimize hatchability and chick quality and is increasingly becoming a decisive parameter for the profitability...
Article published the October 20, 2011:
Introduction
The demand of animal-origin protein human consumption keeps growing. This encourages research in poultry, in the search of alternatives aiming to reduce production costs. Feeding represents nearly...
Article published the October 20, 2011:
Introduction
One of the most important reasons to reject the use of growth promoter antibiotics is the risk of transferring resistant bacteria from animals to humans. This concern is justified when the same dr...
Article published the October 20, 2011:
Introduction
Mycotoxins are a major factor reducing poultry productivity and the quality of poultry products. Nearly 25% of the grains produced worldwide is contaminated with mycotoxins (Mannon and Jonhson, 19...
Article published the October 20, 2011:
Introduction
In order to achieve hihg protoxtion rates and for their product to be competitive, broiler producers can use several commercial products. Performance-enhancing antimicrobials (PEA), are ingredient...
Article published the October 20, 2011:
Introduction
In the poultry industry, productive and reproductive efficiency of broiler breeders are critical, since these two factors determine maximum economic returns from the numbers and quality of both ha...
Article published the October 20, 2011:
Introduction
In nature, soybeans posses a series of secondary metabolites known as anti-nutritional factors. These compounds have rious effects on bird growth, feed efficiency, and nutrient digestibility, part...
Article published the October 20, 2011:
Introduction
Brazil has a great potential for the production of biofuels. Besides the diversity of oilseeds for the production of biodiesel, the country possesses arrowhead technology and a high capacity manuf...
Article published the October 20, 2011:
Introduction
The success of the poultry industry depends on the balance between productivity and profitability (Brandalize, 2001). The feed represents 70-80% of the total production cost. This is why res...