Poultry Industry Technical Articles
Article published the July 26, 2019:
Ochratoxin A (OTA) is a mycotoxin produced mainly by Aspergillus ochraceus and Penicillium verrucosum. The family of ochratoxins consists of 3 members, viz. ochratoxin A, B and C but ochratoxin A is the most to...
Article published the July 26, 2019:
INTRODUCTION
The worldwide occurrence of mycotoxins producing fungi and their ability to grow on the variety of economical important cereal crops have rendered them as unavoidable contaminants of human and ani...
Article published the July 25, 2019:
The liver plays a key role as being the center of a number of digestive, metabolic and productive activities. Oxidative stress leads to biological damage and is regarded as one of the causes of several patholog...
Article published the July 25, 2019:
Various environmental stressors such as high ambient temperature and relative humidity influence the performance of broilers by reducing feed intake, feed conversion efficiency and hypophyseal-adrenocortical ax...
Article published the July 25, 2019:
The presence of ochratoxin A in poultry feed causes significantly to health disorders and decreases production. In a survey conducted to investigate global occurrence of mycotoxins, the incidence of OTA in Sout...
Article published the July 25, 2019:
In the European Union (EU), efforts are in place to minimize human food-borne Salmonella infections from animal-derived food. Special attention is given to animal feed (1) in line with EU regulation (EC) No 178...
Article published the July 25, 2019:
1. Introduction
Newcastle disease is considered the number one disease constraint to poultry production in low and middle-income countries [1]. In these areas, chickens often serve as important protein source...
Article published the July 25, 2019:
INTRODUCTION
Awareness about the importance of maternal diet on offspring health is increasing. Maternal nutrition is being studied in livestock species as a way of improving offspring growth and production (R...
Article published the July 24, 2019:
Background
Avian influenza (AI) is a devastating disease and the current approach that is used to control it is based on isolation and extermination of affected flocks in order to stop the spread of the virus....
Article published the July 24, 2019:
Background
Egg quality has received more attention due to increased demands for safety and high-quality eggs by consumers. Internal egg quality involves functional, aesthetic and microbiological properties of ...