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This newsletter provides an overview of silvopasture-based poultry production, and potential benefits and challenges of adopting this system as a largescale or small-scale producer.Silvopasture is an agroforestry practice in which trees, forages, shrubs, and animals are intentionally integrated into a single land unit. These systems are managed in ways that take advantage of the beneficial interac ...
Participation in Forum on February 20, 2022
The paper below may mitigate some perceptions about Salmonella and cage free housing systems
Risk Factors Associated With Salmonella in Laying Hen Farms: Systematic Review of Observational Studies
Author(s): Thomas Denagamage, Bhushan Jayarao, Paul Patterson, Eva Wallner-Pendleton, and Subhashinie Kariyawasam
Source: Avian Diseases, 59(2):291-302.
https://doi.org/10.1637/10997-120214-Reg
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Dr Kotaiah Talapaneni
Thanks for your comments. It is difficult to establish a correlation between new welfare rules (as cage free) and increasing of Salmonella Gallinarum but it is true that old diseases are emerging (Pasteurella, Coryza)in these new systems So, it is necessary to be alert regarding S. Gallinarum
Participation in Forum on November 15, 2021
Dr Roxane Sanchez-Ingunza thank you for your thoughts. You wrote - A system that allows the veterinarian to gather relevant information from the field and analyze it in a timely manner would benefit any poultry producer.
Surveillance would definitely benefit the industry and the consumer but not necessarily the individual producer. Producer's benefits would depend on the regulatory framework and ...
Participation in Forum on August 21, 2019
It is beneficial to view the results of this 9-year study in conjunction with extensive published reviews that concluded that there is no consensus regarding the impact that cage, barn and free-range egg production has on Salmonella contamination of eggs (Holt et al 2011 and Whiley et al 2015). An Australian report indicated that fewer free-range flocks than indoor flocks were found to be environm ...
Participation in Forum on November 26, 2017
Perhaps before elaborating on the risk imposed by free range flocks, one should examine the practices in poultry enterprises that should be the bastions of biosecurity - indoor breeder flocks. The epidemiological study by APHIS USDA (https://www.aphis.usda.gov/animal_health/animal_dis_spec/poultry/downloads/epi-ai.pdf) following the outbreaks early this year in 8 indoor breeder flocks (owned by 5 ...
Participation in Forum on May 12, 2015
The comments by Rajendra Prasad Vemana and Surinder Maini in some respect are a reminder that beyond the role of wild waterfowl there is a potential for other important factors to be involved including; the density of the poultry population and not the least the role that domestic ducks could play in the epidemiology of avian influenza in poultry. While this was acknowledged during the spread of ...
Participation in Forum on May 10, 2015
Some useful comments from Dr Scott but unfortunately the reality of avian influenza in Australia does not support the view that free-range farming imposes high risk.
1. Most outbreaks in Australia have been in cage and barn systems.
2. While indeed the 2 most recent outbreaks in Australia were reported in commercial table egg layers, most incidents of LP and HP AI in Australia occurred in meat bi ...
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