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The Digital Evolution of the Poultry Industry: Imagine. Collaborate. Gain.
What if we could seamlessly manage all our data and share information with trusted partners? Could the connectivity and collaboration across our value chain help each one of us? Our industry is evolving toward a more efficient, sustainable and innovative future. Let’s take a walk down the future lane. Hear what Kshitij "Tij" Gupta, Head of Platform & Business Development at Evonik, has to say about this...
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Chris Morrow
Bioproperties PTY Ltd
Live ts mycoplasma vaccines were created to be safe but still immunogenic. So how can we assess this immunogenicity in the field? This bulletin condenses the experience of 20 years trying to monitor vaccine response and differentiate problems from normal responses. Various approaches have been taken to improve serological monitoring (for example, cloned homologous antigens) and understand problems but the conclusion is that humoral antibody is not the mechanism of protection of these...
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Rodrigo Gallardo
UC Davis - University of California
UC Davis - University of California
INTRODUCTION Inactivated vaccines are commonly used in poultry as part of a comprehensive vaccination protocol. These vaccines are capable of inducing high antibody titers, which can protect against systemic infections and are transferred from breeder hens to their progeny as maternal antibodies. In order to increase the immunogenicity, these vaccines contain adjuvants. The most common adjuvants in poultry vaccines are aluminum hydroxide gel (Alum) and...
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María Ugarte Ruiz
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
1. Introduction Salmonella spp. is Gram-negative intracellular enteric bacterium of public health concern. It is responsible for over 90,000 cases of zoonotic food-borne infections per year in the European Union (EU), according to the last European Food and Safety Authority (EFSA) report [1]. In recent years, different serovars were considered responsible for disease outbreaks, and Salmonella Typhimurium and S. Enteritidis were the most prevalent in the European Union...
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Mike Czarick
Mike Czarick and 1 more
University of Georgia
University of Georgia
Why does litter seem to suddenly cake over just prior to turning the birds out into full house? In many cases, it is simply because minimum ventilation fan settings are not being changed quickly enough to keep up with the rapidly increasing amount of...
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Shawna Weimer
Shawna Weimer and 3 more
University of Arkansas (USA)
University of Arkansas (USA)
Early feeding can improve broiler performance and welfare The first experiences of a day-old chick play an important role for the development and performance of chicks later in life. Especially for broilers, one or two days make up a large portion of their relatively short...
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Nuhad Daghir
American University of Beirut
American University of Beirut
1. Data The dataset in this article describes the new water footprint for animal products in fifteen countries of the Middle East and North Africa. Fig. 1 presents the methodology for calculating the local and imported green, blue, and grey water footprint of animal products. Fig. 2 shows the weighted average water footprint (WF) of feed items disaggregated by source (local and imported fractions), and by type (green, blue, and greywater). Fig. 3 shows the WF of an animal...
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Ryan Dilger
Ryan Dilger and 3 more
University of Illinois
University of Illinois
Introduction Market availability and fluctuation in the cost of conventional feed ingredients are pushing producers to increase inclusion of low-cost, fibre-rich co-products in the diets of monogastric animals. One major issue of this approach is that digestibility of high-fibre ingredients varies widely, with α-linked starch being digestible through hydrolytic–enzymatic action, but β-linked dietary fibres only being digested by exogenously supplied enzymes or...
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1. Introduction Poland is the biggest European Union (EU) poultry meat producer. Over 2.5 million tonnes of meat was produced in 2019, an equivalent of ~17% of the total EU production [1]. Approximately 83% of the meat comes from chicken broilers. Intensive poultry production raises concerns about gaseous emissions (mainly ammonia, NH 3 ) and its impact on workers, birds, and the environment. Additionally, odor nuisance can be a significant problem for nearby...
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Dr. Guillermo Tellez-Isaias
University of Arkansas (USA)
University of Arkansas (USA)
1. Introduction In the poultry industry, enteric bacterial pathogens pose a threat to intestinal health and can contribute to the transmission of zoonotic diseases [1,2], increased mortality in poultry flocks, reduced feed efficiency, decreased rate of body weight gain and, therefore, increase in total production costs [3,4]. Salmonella infection and necrotic enteritis (NE) produced by Clostridium perfringens (CP) are two significant bacterial diseases in poultry [5,6]. Each...
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Richard Miles
Richard Miles and 1 more
University of Florida
University of Florida
The laying cycle of a chicken flock usually covers a span of about 12 months. Egg production begins when the birds reach about 18-22 weeks of age, depending on the breed and season. Flock production rises sharply and reaches a peak of about 90%, 6-8 weeks later. Production then gradually declines to about 65% after 12 months of lay. A typical production curve for a laying flock, showing changes in the level of egg production and in egg weight, over time, is given in Figure 1. ...
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Mézes Miklós
Mézes Miklós and 4 more
Szent István University
Szent István University
1. Introduction Aflatoxins (AFs) are secondary metabolites of the Aspergillus species of fungi, which are generally contaminate tropical and subtropical food and feedstuffs [1]. However, due to climate change, their occurrence in temperate climates should be taken into account not only during storage but also on the field [2,3]. Climate change usually causes drought stress in fungi, and stress-responding pathways can stimulate the AF production of Aspergillus flavus...
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by Sam Shafer When humans domesticate and breed an animal, they tend to select for a very specific trait. In laying hens, artificial selection for high egg production has led to hens that can produce 320 eggs a year. But could artificial selection have unintentionally altered hen brain morphology? In a new study, published in the July issue of  Poultry...
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Aaron Kiess
Aaron Kiess and 1 more
North Carolina State University - NCSU
North Carolina State University - NCSU
Tomi Obe and Aaron Kiess discuss Salmonella sanitization with PSA
Aaron Kiess (Mississippi State University) and Tomi Obe (University of Georgia) talk about a current hot topic in the poultry processing industry: salmonella sanitization. Let's Squawk About It is a monthly interview segment by the Poultry Science Association....
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