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DANVILLE, Va. – Tyson Foods has officially opened a new $300 million fully-cooked food production facility in Danville, Virginia, delivering on its strategy of accelerating long-term growth, operating as efficiently as possible and investing in its poultry business. It is one of the company’s most-automated plants to date, marking the deployment of innovation pilots and prototypes at scale.
The 325,000-square-foot facility represents a significant investment in the local...
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Mueez Ahmad (Arm & Hammer) Enterococcus faecalis is considered a normal inhabitant of the poultry gastrointestinal tract. Although it has been known to be an opportunistic poultry pathogen, high levels of this organism can be recovered from the intestinal tract of normal, healthy birds with no known disease issues. More recently, an increasing number of poultry veterinarians and diagnostic laboratories have been reporting that E. faecalis is...
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Ioannis Brouklogiannis (Agricultural University of Athens) This study was conducted to investigate the inclusion level effects of a natural phytogenic blend (PB) on production performance, egg quality, and underlying detoxification (aryl hydrocarbon receptor; AhR), antioxidant (nuclear factor erythroid 2-related factor 2; Nrf2) and inflammatory (nuclear factor-kappa B; NFκB) responses in layers’ duodena and ceca. Depending on PB...
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The price index of veterinary APIs monitored by China Veterinary Drugs and Feed Trading Centre for four weeks this month was 64.80-65.07-64.90-64.66, indicating that the market is generally stable. Products such as Doxycycline hydrochloride, neomycin sulfate, tilmicosin, enrofloxacin, and florfenicol, etc, have received more attention, while other categories and products have performed stably and are still at the bottom of the market.
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In a bid to enhance animal health and nutrition for sustainable food security in Sub-Saharan Africa, Livestock Industry Foundation for Africa (LIFA), with the support of the Zoetis Foundation, orchestrated a groundbreaking initiative in West Africa titled “Knowledge Update on Poultry Health and Nutrition.” This transformative program aimed to impart critical knowledge and skills to enhance poultry health practices in the region.
Spanning two significant sessions held on...
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Agreed with @Teresa M. Agulles Teixidò, Some essential oils (EOs) from Eucalyptus spp., peppermint, balsam fir needle oil have naturally respiratory tropism properties as expectorant, mucus fluidisation, stimulating of the ciliary beat frequency (CBF) of nasal mucosa. I was formulating a lot of EOs based feed additive since 2003, and I can confirm these alternative and natural solutions may help animals producers and veterinarian practitioners to decrease the use of...
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1. Introduction The application of antibiotics on poultry farms has been linked to the global emergence of multi-drug-resistant (MDR) bacteria in recent years (Benrabia et al., 2020; Kaonga et al., 2021). MDR bacteria can spread from food-producing animals to humans through direct contact with the food chain and the environment (Kirbis and Krizman, 2015). One-Health issues are still an important topic in the poultry industry, pre-harvest as well as post-harvest. Efforts...
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In cage-free housing, multi-tiered aviary structures are often used (pictured above), where key resources (i.e., feed, water, nests, perches) are available on elevated platforms called tiers, and litter substrate is available on the ground floor for dustbathing and foraging. Hens move vertically and horizontally...
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A properly designed circulation fan system can provide a grower with a variety of benefits. During cold weather, circulation fans can transfer hot air collecting near the ceiling to bird level, increasing floor temperatures and decreasing heating costs. Circulation fans can also help move warm air from the center of a house towards the cooler...
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Preventing injury to a chicken’s foot pads (paws) is very important for a number of reasons. First, chicken paws are a valuable product, a delicacy in some cultures, and often sell for as much as two to three times as breast meat on a per-pound basis. Secondly, foot pad lesions can become infected, resulting in leg problems and a decrease in overall bird performance. Last but not least, a chicken’s feet are a good indicator of litter quality. Numerous studies have documented the...
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This is probably one of the fundamental questions of modern microbiology, which has always focused on the search for criteria for identifying microorganisms. Remember Bergey's classic bacteria guide? The morphology of the colonies was supported by the composition of the nutrient medium. Then the criterion was the ability to metabolize specific carbohydrates. And now 16s sequencing has been added to all this, which raises more questions than answers. Why can't there be organisms that are able to...
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Negative pressure ventilation is the most popular method of ventilating poultry houses during cold weather due to it’s simplicity and relatively low initial and operating costs. Exhaust fans create a low-pressure zone within a house and give a producer precise control over the amount of fresh air brought into a house. Air inlets uniformly distribute fresh air drawn in by the exhaust fans throughout the house and direct it along the ceiling, where the hot air (produced by the...
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Amanda Cobucci, Techno-Commercial Manager at Proteon LATAM, speaks about how bacteriophages modulate the microbiome to improve animal health...
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Consumers are looking for additional sources of protein foods. Hear what Mr. O.P. Singh, Managing Director of ABTL Enzymes, has to say about this topic and its link with marketing...
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We have the notion that one of the key factors to achieve and maintain the adequate structure and functions of the digestive tract is the microbiota that resides there; which in turn influences the level of general health and productivity of the animals. This round table addresses the need to use more standardized methodologies to characterize the composition of the microbiota in birds (metagenomics), since it is considered that the way in which these studies have been carried...
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Dive into the world of feed safety, efficiency, and sustainability with Dr. Kai Jens Kuehlmann, the distinguished Program Manager for Feed Quality at Trouw Nutrition. Discover his expert take on the critical issues shaping today's livestock industry. ...
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INTRODUCTION In line with the tremendous progress that has been made in meat-type duck production, digestibility and balance experiments are necessary to fill the dearth of information on the nutrient digestibility of widely used feedstuffs. Digestibility experiments for the evaluation of nutrient disappearance along the gastrointestinal tract align with the need for precise feed formulation to match animals’ requirements for optimal performance; and minimize the excretion...
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I agree, it is a very important topic. On point was not discussed enough I think: standardisation of the bioinformatics. While new developments are always happening overall, the 16s sequencing bioinformatics is now mostly established to use ASV or mOTUs based on the DADA2 pipeline. It might be useful to agree at least on a best practice and recommended tools for the bioinformatics as well. This will make hopefully comparing results described in a paper easier without reanalysing data....
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@Paulo Martins , the presence of E. Coli or other pathogens in finished feed indicates that a critical control step, pelleting, had failed or that the feed has become contaminated after the pellet mills indicating poor quality control of the manufacturing process. You are correct that the birds intestine does contain these bacteria and receives these bacteria from many different sources, however the feed should not contribute to the bacteria load in the intestine. Feed mills with...
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This is an important issue. It will be interesting to see/hear how similar the results are from different laboratories using the proposed protocol when analysing the same mock communities or sample(s) in developing/validating the standardised methodology. ...
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