Explore

Communities in English

Advertise on Engormix

Check out what is new in Poultry Industry

Find the best technical articles, forums, and videos on Poultry Industry at Engormix. Enter now and interact with the world's largest agricultural social network.
Explore all topics

Federico Ghiselli
Bologna University
Bologna University
Anticoccidials and natural alternatives to fight coccidiosis
Federico Ghiselli (University of Bologna) discusses his research on a blend of thymol, carvacrol, and saponins, as well as alternatives to anticoccidials, during the Symposium on Gut Health in St. Louis, USA....
Comments : 0
Recommendations: 0
Michael H Kogut
USDA - United States Department of Agriculture
USDA - United States Department of Agriculture
Highlights of the 10th Symposium on Gut Health in Production of Food Animals
Mike Kogut, Chair of the Organizing Committee, comments on the event's success and announces the dates of the next edition....
Comments : 0
Recommendations: 7
Studies in the past decade have shown that Cordyceps militaris has multiple pharmacological functions, including anti-oxidant, anti-inflammatory, antimicrobial, anti-tumor, and anti-angiogenic activities and immunopotentiation ability. The chemical structure of cordycepin is similar to that of adenosine. Cordycepin can be used as a nucleotide during RNA synthesis, which leads to premature termination of chain elongation because of the absence of oxygen in the 3′...
Comments : 0
Recommendations: 1
Filip Van Immerseel
Ghent University
Ghent University
Improving gut barrier and microbiota to enhance birds' immunity and resilience
Prof. dr. F. Van Immerseel, speaks about how poultry producers can improve gut barrier, microbiota, and birds’ resilience ...
Comments : 0
Recommendations: 5
Introduction Protein is a major component of animal tissues and products. Thus, adequate intake of dietary protein is essential to optimise growth, production performance, and feed efficiency in poultry. Soybean meal is most commonly used protein source and used around 20-30 % in poultry feed. Now days protein feed ingredients like soybean meal are consistently increasing in cost; so protein has become one of the most expensive nutrients in poultry diet. After feed consumed by...
Comments : 1
Recommendations: 1
Introduction The influence of seminal plasma on sperm storage may vary among species. Its removal is recommended in the majority of semen cryopreservation protocols of species such as caprine in order to ensure maximal sperm viability [1], but it isn’t entirely recommended in other mammals (e.g. ovine; [2]). Mammalian seminal plasma may contain factors that influence resistance of sperm to cold-shock damage and may prevent cryoinjury [3–5]. Conversely, detrimental...
Comments : 0
Recommendations: 0
Manpreet Singh
Manpreet Singh and 2 more
University of Georgia
University of Georgia
INTRODUCTION Poultry and poultry products represent a popular choice of protein in the United States, with increasingly high consumption rates over the past years (Zhang et al., 2018). Poultry meat has surpassed both pork and beef in per capita consumption in the United States (USDA Economic Research Service, 2020). With this increased consumption of poultry and poultry products, there is a significant concern for contamination, thus impacting public health. Salmonella and...
Comments : 0
Recommendations: 0
Edgar O. Oviedo-Rondón
North Carolina State University - NCSU
North Carolina State University - NCSU
INTRODUCTION Amino acids (AA) and crude protein (CP) intake during the rearing phase in broiler breeders have demonstrated to affect body composition and reproductive performance in the laying period (Joseph et al., 2000; Ciacciariello and Tyler, 2013; van Emous et al., 2013, 2015a, 2015b). Modifications of these nutrients added up to the adjustment of feed allocation may alter BW (van Emous et al., 2013; Soumeh et al., 2018), organ development (Lesuisse et al., 2017), egg...
Comments : 1
Recommendations: 0
Nelson Ward
dsm-firmenich
The majority of pig and poultry diets are composed of about 70% maize or wheat, 20% soybean meal or other similar protein sources, and 10% micro-ingredients. Although this is a simplification, it illustrates the point that the majority of pork, poultry, and eggs are produced using a limited range of ingredients. In addition, it is important to note that feed cost is about 60-70% of overall production cost. And, as feedstuff prices continue to be prohibitively high, with detrimental...
Comments : 1
Recommendations: 3
Featured comment:
Markus Wiltafsky
Evonik Animal Nutrition
Evonik Animal Nutrition
Dear Luis, in the last few years, we had a close look at the quality of different protein-rich feed ingredients and we developed NIR calibrations which can now be used locally to estimate the quality. The reactive Lys to Lys ratio is a good indicator for over-processing and it works in Soybean products, but also in Canola Meal and DDGS. In Canola it might be worth to check in addition the levels of Glucosinolates and Erucic acid. It should be low, but it's better to check it. All...
Comments : 18
Recommendations: 4
Introduction Conventional systems (battery cages) lead commercial egg production worldwide due to their reportedly efficient disease prevention processes (WHILEY; ROSS, 2015). However, shifts in egg consumption have drawn attention to potential animal welfare issues and generated demand for alternative laying systems with improved hen wellbeing. In this way, free-range systems could be an ideal choice for egg production and hen welfare (JONES at al., 2012); however, despite...
Comments : 0
Recommendations: 0
Usama Aftab
AB Vista
I. INTRODUCTION Phosphorus (P) is a critical nutrient for growth and structural integrity of growing animals. Nutritionists generally tend to use a significant margin of safety while formulating commercial diets to avoid any deficiency symptoms. A large variation appears to exist in P requirement estimates/recommendations for broiler chickens across different sources; e.g. summarizing some selected references, Table 1 shows the highest vs. lowest estimates to differ by...
Comments : 0
Recommendations: 0
  Evonik has launched a digital access to EGGcellence .  AMINOHen®  is an egg industry nutrition software developed by Evonik to achieve Sustainable egg production and easily individualized a feeding program for layers. ...
Comments : 0
Recommendations: 3
Dr. Peter Selle
The University of Sydney
The University of Sydney
INTRODUCTION Methionine (Met) is often considered to be the first limiting amino acid in modern broiler diets. Synthetic Met has been commercially available for animal feed since the 1950s and is routinely included in modern poultry diets. Whilst studies on Met requirements, based on growth performance parameters are not novel, understanding the impact of dietary Met supplementations on apparent digestibility and plasma concentrations of amino acid is important in conventional...
Comments : 0
Recommendations: 2
Peter Groves
Peter Groves and 3 more
The University of Sydney
The University of Sydney
I. INTRODUCTION Optimum BW is an important consideration in achieving early maturity, high productivity and uniformity in laying hens (Lacin et al., 2009). Parkinson et al. (2015) noted that it was common for Australian flocks to have an average body weight (BW) 100-300 grams above the breed standard weight (BSW). This higher BW is indicative of bird obesity and is associated with the production of excessively large eggs with consequently lower eggshell quality and...
Comments : 0
Recommendations: 0
Mariana Ciacciariello
University of KwaZulu-Natal (Sudafrica)
University of KwaZulu-Natal (Sudafrica)
I. INTRODUCTION True sustainability was defined by the World Commission on Environment and Development (Brundtland Commission, 1987) as “the ability to meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs”. Sustainability is a concept with multiple facets including, environmental (which includes both the demand for resources and environmental pollution), ethical (welfare and social conscience), economic and...
Comments : 0
Recommendations: 1
Alex Wu
University of New England
University of New England
I. INTRODUCTION Xylans, together with β-glucans and cellulose constitute non-starch polysaccharides (NSP) that cannot be fully degraded by monogastric animals (Cowieson at al., 2008). NSPs have an antinutritive effect by increasing the viscosity of the intestinal digesta (Choct and Annison, 1992; Craig et al., 2020). This increase in digesta viscosity causes an impairment of nutrient bioavailability and a decrease in metabolizable energy, lowering the overall performance of...
Comments : 0
Recommendations: 1
Velmurugu Ravindran
Massey University
Massey University
I. INTRODUCTION With the recognition that pelleting can enhance the feeding value of barley in poultry diets, mostly through the break-down of cell wall matrix resulting a greater accessibility of encapsulated nutrients to digestive enzymes (Abdollahi and Ravindran, 2019), barley has been successfully used in pelleted broiler diets (Perera et al., 2019b; Perera et al., 2020). While the optimum inclusion level (Perera et al., 2019b) and particle size (Perera et al., 2020)...
Comments : 0
Recommendations: 1
Rebecca Forder
University of Adelaide
University of Adelaide
I. INTRODUCTION The chicken meat industry has made tremendous production gains through advanced utilisation of genetic selection and nutritional understanding to ensure that chicken meat remains a low cost, desirable product that consumers continuously demand (Zuidhof et al., 2015). The industry now requires new approaches to further advance efficiency and production, with developmental programming at the forefront of industry development (Hynd et al., 2016). Developmental...
Comments : 0
Recommendations: 1
Dr. Peter Selle
The University of Sydney
The University of Sydney
I. INTRODUCTION There is widespread interest in the successful development of reduced-crude protein (CP) diets, focusing on alternative dietary strategies to reduce CP levels whilst maintaining acceptable growth performance (Greenhalgh et al., 2020). Reduced CP diets have the potential to provide advantages environmentally by decreasing outputs of nitrogen and ammonia, improving bird welfare by enhancing litter quality and lowering incidences of foot-pad dermatitis and improving...
Comments : 0
Recommendations: 0
1...353637...86
Join Engormix and be part of the largest agribusiness social network in the world.