Richard Udale

This article is good, but some outside of the box thinking is required in today's energy situation. I am not an expert in management but I remember, from my childhood, brooding baby chicks for 3-4 weeks under brooders that were 6-8 feet in diameter. These would brood 1000 chicks and by only heating the area under the brooder and the 6-12 inch air space between floor and brooder canopy. My coll ...

Adriana Pedrosa has reported some good work here. I would suggest however that the bacteria arrive in the albumen as the egg is formed in the oviduct. In fact the yolk itself may be colonized by bacteria at the time of ovulation.