Javier Pomiano

All commercial poultry eat with reasonably good precision to balance nutrient intake with requirements. Short term, there can be some variation in feed intake related to local situations, but long-term, the mechanisms of feed intake regulation are quite precise. Matching nutrient needs with intake is an obvious inherent evolutionary necessity to ensure survival and reproduction. A bird’s dai ...

With the ever increasing need for animal protein sources for human consumption, the poultry industry always coped up to meet the needs at an affordable manner. The conditions in developing countries for the production of either broiler or table egg may not be entirely free of unseen losses. The following article will review briefly about such losses by gut disorders and the approaches to avoid the ...

Increasing prices and low availability of common feed raw materials resulted in the use of alternative ingredients in animal production. These ingredients are often characterised by a high amount of soluble fibre resulting in lower performance and intestinal health issues that limits their inclusion rate in the diet. Bacillus amyloliquefaciens CECT 5940 (Ba) is a probiotic that can produce various ...

Author details:1 Department of Poultry Science, The University of Georgia, Athens, GA 3060, USA; 2 Toxicology and Mycotoxin Research Unit, US National Poultry Research Center, Athens, GA 30605, USA; 3 Department of Animal and Dairy Science, The University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA.1. IntroductionC. jejuni is the leading cause of gastrointestinal disease in the United States [1,2]. The fina ...

Mycotoxins are toxic compounds produced by certain fungi that contaminate crops and animal feed under specific conditions. These toxins, such as aflatoxins, deoxynivalenol (DON), and ochratoxin A, pose serious health risks to animals and humans. Among their many effects, some mycotoxins directly impair the immune system, causing immunosuppression that weakens the body’s ability to fight infe ...

Bird performs well within a certain range of environmental temperatures. As the temperature gets higher than the range, the bird falls on stress generally called heat stress. Heat stress is the most significant stressors influencing poultry productivity and causing considerable economic losses in the poultry industry. This induces several negative effects on physiological response of bird. Reducin ...