Talaat Mostafa El-Sheikh

Maintaining bird comfort during the hot, humid summer is critical for optimum weight gain, feed conversion, and livability. In most situations, modern-day poultry houses are equipped with tunnel ventilation systems with large exhaust fans at one end and evaporative cooling pads at the opposite end. Evaporative pads are chosen mainly for their high efficiency, while foggers (low-pressure misting sy ...

IntroductionCommercial egg production is associated with various stresses decreasing productive and reproductive performance of layers. It is proven that most of stresses in poultry production (technological: chick placement, vaccinations and transfer to breeder houses; environmental: heat stress, high ammonia, etc.; nutritional: mycotoxins, misbalances of vitamins, minerals, amino acids, etc.; or ...

INTRODUCTION Nutrition plays a major role in the performance of layer birds. Feed management is the most important practice to get egg production at a right time, maximum peak production, long standing peak production, standard egg size, good cull bird weight and reduced feed cost per egg. Body weight should be taken every week from 1st week to 18th week of age, the birds with less body weight sh ...

The concept of food safety has become increasingly more evident in food production, mainly in relation to the export of products of animal origin, and it is a huge challenge to for the industries to ensure food safety.The demand for healthier and more natural additives in food has increased in Brazil and the world, resulting in investment in technology and industry adhesion. The technology used in ...

Since May 2021, it has been possible to vaccinate long-cycle poultry against Salmonella during the production period. This benefit is due to the variation obtained for the Primun Salmonella E product, a vaccine produced by CALIER. The European agencies have considered that the extension of immunity generated by application in laying and the non-excretion of vaccine salmonellae in faeces ...

IntroductionGenetic companies using new advances in genetic engineering are working to achieve high-persistence brown and white egg layer hybrids capable of producing more than 500 eggs in a 100-week lay and molt-free period.1-The quality of the shell is the main reason for a producer to discard a flock of layer.2-The posture drop is the second.- The most important nutritional strategy is bone hea ...