Poultry Industry Technical Articles
Article published the July 13, 2021:
The liver is a key organ for the health and productivity of poultry and plays a significant part in the digestion, metabolism and utilization of nutrients.
The liver is involved in the metabolism of fats, ca...
Article published the July 13, 2021:
The identification of mild to moderate gizzard erosions (GE) in more than 20- 30% of the healthy commercial broilers examined in post mortem sessions, is commonly found in several countries in the Americas an...
Article published the July 13, 2021:
Introduction
Use of the antibiotics in feed has shown several side effects like resistance towards the drug, residue in the meat and thereby the user getting resistance to the drug etc. hence several countries...
Article published the July 13, 2021:
1. Introduction
Contact dermatitis is an inflammation and irritation of the skin due to contact with an irritant or allergen. A common type of contact dermatitis in broiler chickens is footpad dermatitis (FPD)...
Article published the July 12, 2021:
INTRODUCTION
Antibiotics used as growth promoters (AGP) have successfully controlled dysbiosis and enteropathogens for the past 50 years (1). However, the recent increase in worldwide non-AGP poultry productio...
Article published the July 12, 2021:
1. Introduction
Poultry producers started to raise their commercial chickens indoors as of the 1950s for better disease control, protection from predators, and to integrate their management measures for the pr...
Article published the July 12, 2021:
Introduction
Salmonella is a major foodborne pathogen commonly associated with raw poultry and poultry products causing 1.2 million illnesses, 23,000 hospitalizations and 450 deaths, annually in the United Sta...
Article published the July 12, 2021:
Introduction
Coccidiosis is an infectious disease of the intestinal tract of wild and domestic animals caused by different protozoa. These include but are not limited to Isospora, Neospora, Cryptosporidium, an...
Article published the July 12, 2021:
Background
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR), is one of the biggest threats to food safety and considered a One-Health issue with the potential of spreading to other countries since resistant pathogens do not rec...
Article published the July 8, 2021:
Since May 2021, it has been possible to vaccinate long-cycle poultry against Salmonella during the production period. This benefit is due to the variation obtained for the Primun Salmonella E product, a ...