M.C. Fernando R. Feuchter A. likes the comment:
Hi Dr. Leeson, thanks for your interesting paper. In my view, there is one topic that is misunderstood: the role of taste and smell in feed intake. Evolution has kept roughly 250 genes in the chicken genome for these 2 systems. Claiming these are not well-developed is probably inaccurate. For example, chickens have a very fine taste system, including roughly several fold more taste buds in the ora ...
Participation in Forum on October 13, 2025
It is easy to agree with all of you opinions. Consider that a broiler house with environment control doest not work equaly even in all places and countrys so getting into the limits of lowering protein nutritional recommendation, has to be done on step at the time and also lerning form one season to another. Leraning form your own experience, climate, installations, feed sources changes, the healt ...
Participation in Forum on October 6, 2025
Corn starch is duster that grounded corn grain. Thus an effect of feed consumption.
Participation in Forum on October 6, 2025
Any defense? or practical control? The risk is present on ground, air, water and soil.
Participation in Forum on July 9, 2025
Change is a constant, you do not longer use an old photograph cameras, there are new types available on hand with good resolution. Animal facilities designs, feed formulation, food processing etc have changed so the animal industry.
Participation in Forum on July 5, 2025
During COVID years the slaughters houses had shortage of workers, and the marketing channels were disrupted. Then many farmers had to slower speed production rates until they got a buyer, They needed time to wait or to accelerate if needed for their sale turn. Eggs, pigs, broilers were in that situation.
Participation in Forum on July 5, 2025
@Dr Kotaiah Talapaneni O.K. it is not easy to get resistant birds to a single virus, it is almost impossible to genetically select birds for several diseases.
Participation in Forum on July 4, 2025
@BAWINDSOMDE OUEDRAOGO COVID vaccine does not protect against all the stripes in the world. The vaccine was to brake the speed proliferation of the pandemic, but not to inmmune the world population. People get Influenza Vaccine each year for new stripes in the environment. It did no got protection for the years to come.
Participation in Forum on July 3, 2025
When there is a commbination of many factors is hard to split each effect and differentiate any contribution.
Participation in Forum on June 30, 2025
Interesting the level of added SALT. Corn grain is low on sodium Na, but not wheat.Usually corn is sheaper than wheat, but wheat is highly digested. The state of Sonora Mexico usually has availabe wheat for feed rations. Not this year.