David Sabio

Dear Sir, Proteon has most advanced Artificial Intelligence-supported technology to determine wether phages are lytic or not. When dealing with phages it is important that only phages are used in animal health. We uses cocktail of lytic phages which gives synergistic effect in inhibiting bacterial growth. We do not create cocktail randomly, but the composition is well through that the phages help ...

Young animals born from well cared parents have all the immunity to protect the kids/ chicks for 2 to 3 weeks. Today's parent birds of integrated companies are well loaded with antibodies against all known diseases. The chicks are hatched in well managed hatcheries with maternity ward sanitation.Provide physical comforts like comfortable temperature, clean water and initiate them on balanced feed ...

Dr Hafiz Rizwan Akram, thank you for your question, which is a really good one and please apologize for my delayed feedback. With aggressiveness you mean feather pecking and cannibalism, which are really multifactorial problems; at the one side genetical, at the other side management: housing, lightning - respectively the light intensity, stocking density existence of hostile stimuli (pain and fr ...

Dear Dr. Koushik De. I find interesting your discussion on trypsin inhibitors and their role as antinutritional factors in broiler nutrition. It would be nice however, if you add a list of all the literature cited and provide credit where credit is due. Havenstein et al. (2003) didn't discuss trypsin inhibitors in their comparison of the 1957 and 2001 genetics, the slide that you have in your pape ...

Oketch Elijah Ogola: As mentioned Soybean meal is the most widely used major protein source in poultry production across the world. And there are limited in the number of efficacious protein sources that successfully reduce soybean meal content. And now in many countries meat and bone meal/animal protein usage has been either stopped or been reduced significantly because of chances of microbial co ...

This was a great work. However, eggs were weighed before hatch but effects of maternal nutrition on egg weight and chicks weight at hatch were not reported. These unreported facts may have some interactive effects on the growth of the offsprings.

Even with the ideal levels of essential amino acids in a diet, as crude protein is lowered, the levels of other "non-essential" amino acids, e.g. glycine, may drop below the optimal levels for animal performance. However, direct supplementation with glycine has been shown to affect gut microbiome, immune response gene expression, and serum concentrations of various amino acids (https://www.ncbi.nl ...

Leo Geilvoet agree about the smell method. In Thailand we use rice husk as litter. Litter is changed-out after every grow and catch cycle To control ammonia and wet litter we turn rice husk daily from day 10 when chickens go full house to around day 25 when there becomes insufficient room to run the rakes. Daily checks on litter under drinker lines is very important. Maintaining correct drinker li ...

Talaat Mostafa El-Sheikh Some direct impacts... Climate change can impact poultry production by stressing the birds’ ability to maintain homeostasis. Birds must work to regulate their temperature and, therefore, lose and divert nutrients that should be used for production. This leads to production losses (reduced growth rate, lower egg production, increased disease threat, and higher mortality) ...