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The demand for "Golden September and Silver October" fell below expectations. In September, the market exhibited signs of a significant recovery, with tentative rebounds. However, in October, the overall market trend shifted from strength to weakness, entering a phase of volatility. The factors driving price increases from the supply side are gradually diminishing. Categories that were previously ...
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Alberto Torres (Exports Manager, Cobb-Vantress) comments on AI outbreaks as a major disruption in international breeding stock trade, especially poultry meat, during this Engormix interview.
Participation in Forum on July 10, 2025
@Dr Kotaiah Talapaneni , In my 45 years of feeding commercial broilers, I have never restricted feed intake under good commercial conditions (exception for high> 98 degrees F temperatures in the house years ago). For broilers fed lower-protein diets balanced to energy, these diets and management conditions resulted in some of the higher growth rates in the US with very lower than average produc ...
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Dr. Piotr Stanislawski shares his experience with Engormix members regarding the use of enzymes in poultry diets and gives his advice on how to do it properly.
News published on July 30, 2024
Louisville, KY – The Poultry Science Association (PSA), the leading international professional scientific society dedicated to poultry, was excited to host an evening of recognition and honored many outstanding achievements and contributions to the field of poultry science.
During his remarks, Dr. Brian Fairchild, President of the Poultry Science Association, emphasized the importan ...
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Coccidiosis is a disease caused by Eimeria spp. and causes a negative economic impact on the poultry industry, inducing global losses over 2.4 billion dollars annually (1). Specific Eimeria spp. identified in poultry includes E. acervulina, E. brunetti, E. maxima, E. necatrix, E. praecox, E. mitis, E. tenella, E. mivatti, and E. hagani (2). Eimeria spp. colonize in the intestine from duodenum to c ...
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Participation in Forum on November 20, 2023
@Paulo Martins , the presence of E. Coli or other pathogens in finished feed indicates that a critical control step, pelleting, had failed or that the feed has become contaminated after the pellet mills indicating poor quality control of the manufacturing process. You are correct that the birds intestine does contain these bacteria and receives these bacteria from many different sources, however t ...
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I should like also to comment from Dr. Marchenkov regarding "vegetable methionine". As Dr. Wu correctly states, methionine is methionine; an amino acid with a clearly defined structure INDEPENDENT of the source. I have seen numerous products claiming to be "Herbal methionine" and these materials are not methionine, and do not contribute methionine. When used in correctly balanced and formulated di ...
Participation in Forum on September 20, 2022
The use of Challenge conditions and coccidiosis challenges in an experiment makes the interpretation of research as it applies to commercial conditions more difficult. I have found that reducing density and feeding a consistently good quality diet will enable a production manager to determine which products work in his operations and the products that give a positive return.