Poultry Industry Technical Articles
Article published the January 16, 2019:
1. Introduction
Newcastle disease (ND) is a highly contagious and fatal disease affecting poultry and a wide range of wild birds worldwide that is caused by infections with virulent strains of Newcastle diseas...
Article published the January 9, 2019:
INTRODUCTION
Aflatoxins are defined as difuranocyclopentanocumarines / difuranopentanolidocumarines this contains a dihydrofuran or a tetrahydrofuran ring. One of the most important effects of post harvest d...
Article published the January 3, 2019:
1. Drinking Water as a Vehicle of Diseases
Water is essential to life. An adequate, safe and accessible supply must be available to all. Improving access to safe drinking-water can result in significant benefi...
Article published the January 2, 2019:
INTRODUCTION
The simplest approach to decrease dependence on routine antibiotic regimes in animal production is to implement alternative methods to control the bacterial challenges that the antibiotics are mod...
Article published the December 26, 2018:
We at Livestock Industry Foundation for Africa believe that Nigeria should drive a more proactive management approach to the control of Avian influenza epizootics. Nigeria is a potentially high-risk target coun...
Article published the December 12, 2018:
INTRODUCTION
In studies with birds which objective is to evaluate the immune responses and in which nutrients are manipulated to enhance bird immunity, not only performance responses are used. As the immune sy...
Article published the December 10, 2018:
Introduction
A common human propensity is to regard all microorganisms as “harmful”, in particular, equating bacteria to pathogenic germs. Nothing could be further from the truth. The number of b...
Article published the December 10, 2018:
Introduction
Poultry meat is one of the most important protein sources in human diet and production is worldwide growing. Global poultry meat production in 2000 was 69 million tons and this increased to over...
Article published the December 5, 2018:
Article published the December 3, 2018:
1. Introducción
Chitin (C8H13O5N)n) is a long-chain polymer of a N-acetylglucosamine (Figure 1(a)), a derivative of glucose, and is found in many places globally. It is the main component of the cell wa...