Marcelo Paolella

Sustainable poultry production in India requires consistent quality and continuous supply of feed and feed additives. The implementation of laws to prohibit the use of growth promoters in animal diets enforces feed industries to use plant sources as feed additives in poultry diets. Research on phtyochemicals as natural feed additives should be supported so that India can be self-sufficient in feed ...

Oxidative stress in poultryPoultry is one of the fastest growing segments of animal industry and has a substantial contribution to food security and nutrition. Birds are exposed to a multitude of stressors of environmental, nutritional, microbiological, and managemental origin throughout their life cycle that negatively impacts their health and production (Altan et al., 2003). These include sexing ...

DIMA WHITE, STEVE LEESON and WOO KYUN KIM* report that a herbal feed supplement, consisting of natural and organic choline in conjugated form (phosphatidyl choline) along with certain phospholipids can successfully and economically replace choline chloride at lower inclusion levels and provide additional beneficial effects in poultry.Functions and metabolism of cholineCholine, a water-soluble vita ...

One Health MissionFor most of the 20th century, society viewed veterinary medicine primarily as an animal health medical discipline. In recent years, highly publicized public health threats have helped many realize the fundamental linkages between veterinary medicine and human health. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), one or more new infectious diseases have emerged each year since ...

In the 21st Century, the poultry industry has risen to the challenges of growing animal protein demand to feed a hungry world. More emphasis than ever before is now placed on global food security. The demand for poultry meat and eggs, produced under high animal welfare standardsis increasing. Consumer of  21st Century is more vigilant to food quality and to make right choice and preference of ...

INTRODUCTIONMedicinal plants are reservoirs of bioactive compounds used by humans since early ages in traditional medicine for the treatment and prevention of diseases due to their therapeutic potential (Arun and Varsha, 2014; Dilfuza et al., 2015). According to Oluwafemi et al. (2020); Adewale et al. (2020), there are over 500,000 species of medicinal plants identified globally which has led to t ...

During these difficult times facing the coronavirus outbreak, the poultry producers are acting toward the abrupt drop of broiler meat prices. Further, the reduction of chicken sales has forced some farms to decrease their poultry production. Under this circumstance, poultry farmers are increasing their biosecurity and becoming more efficient by reducing the feed cost or costs related to poultry pr ...