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When chickens are healthy they consume less feed and produce more quality eggs. They are less trouble to look after and less money is spent on medical costs. Poultry disease can spread rapidly among chickens because they are usually kept together in the chicken house. The chickens share the same feeders and drinkers, which can spread disease and infections rapidly from sick to healthy chickens. In intensive egg production systems, much focus is placed on the egg laying performance of the flock. Poultry diseases can negatively affect the health and performance of your flock. Important and common poultry diseases include necrotic enteritis, chronic respiratory diseases, gangrenous dermatitis, fowl cholera, and avian influenza.
You are a professional in poultry farming, you want to complete and certify your acquired knowledge? Take advantage to the opportunity to participate in the programs of the World Veterinary Education in Production animal Health WVEPAH and obtain the Academic Diploma «Certificate in Animal Health: Poultry Production», whose...
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Opinion Decisions taken without objective criteria are not decisions, they are hunches. Some years ago, mathematical models have been developed in our laboratory to help explain the immune response to vaccination programs and understand the damage caused by mycotoxins (highly carcinogenic fungal toxins) in chickens. It was also developed a methodology for the use of artificial intelligence (artificial neural networks) to manage the phenomena that involve this segment of the...
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Innovative Directions in Aflatoxin Testing Point to Measureable Gains in Quality Of Lab Data
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Respiratory problems are among the most important problems facing the poultry industry in Egypt. It is the first problem in poultry breeding farms, regardless of the type of poultry reared in these farms (broiler breeders- layer breeders- commercial broilers – commercial layers-native breeds). There are many factors that help to spread these respiratory problems in poultry farms such as:
- Little experience of the of the poultry farms managers in...
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While there's a little known fact and from my experience as a poultry farmer, I have come to the conclusion that most of the mortality I have experienced on farm in the past few weeks have been from Fowl Cholera. Some of the signs noticed include paleness of the comb, morbidity, greenish yellow diarrhoea with pasty vents and above all sudden death. The moment I first noticed, the chicks were placed on NCO after which mortality reduced and gradually stopped, but...
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Trends and challenges in Poultry Production: Jonathan Cade, President of Hy-Line International
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Consumers are always thinking about the residual effect of antibiotics in poultry products. It is proved that antibiotics are not always good for poultry health even human health. Drugs can have residual effects. Due to this reason now antibiotics are not allowed (banned from animal feed) for treatment the sick birds in some of countries, like-Belgium. Now a day every poultry scientist is thinking, how poultry can run without using antibiotics and other drugs. So,...
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Training location : École Nationale de Médecine Vétérinaire (ENMV), Sidi Thabet, Tunisia
Dates : 05 -16 November, 2018
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Dr. Badrul Hassan, DVM and PhD student at Uppsala University, Sweden, presents his poster about antibiotic resistance in avian pathogenic Escherichia coli from large and small scale poultry farms in Bangadlesh, at the XVII WVPA Congress in Cancún, Mexico. ...
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INTRODUCTION Antibiotics are utilized as growth promoters at sub-therapeutic levels and for treatment of poultry diseases. The beneficial effects of antibiotic in combating bacterial problems and as growth promoters are well documented. Medication of water using antibiotic helps birds to recover from certain diseases of bacterial origin. However, there may be problems associated with usage...
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Antibacterial activity of Bacillus species-derived surfactin on Brachyspira hyodysenteriae and Clostridium perfringens (Extract)
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Egg binding occurs when the egg does not pass through the reproductive system at a normal rate. Egg bound occurs when there is difficulty in laying an egg because of an inflammation of the oviduct or partial paralysis of the muscles of the oviduct and production of a very large egg that can not be laid physically. This is common, and often preventable, problems in broiler breeders and not exposed to a mate, since eggs may be formed and laid without the presence of...
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This broiler chickens “specialized” course is an overview of important infectious and non-infectious diseases at different stages of breeder and broiler production. The objective of the WVEPAH education program is to offer a highly specialized training on all specific aspects of broilers (meat chickens) health; pathology, epidemiology,...
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Introduction Poultry industry is one of the fastest growing segments of the animal industry. The worldwide consumption of poultry is increasing. Today's bird has the potential to grow rapidly because of intensive genetic selection so they are more susceptible to stressors of the respiratory and circulatory systems. The poultry industry faces the maximum economic losses by increase in...
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Dr. Maarten De Gussem (Vetworks) talks about the damage caused by this parasite, and how to protect turkeys and chickens from it, during the 5th IHSIG Symposium on Poultry Intestinal Health in Bangkok, Thailand....
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Marko Vasiljevic, Technical Manager for PATENT CO, explains the benefits of using RIDofMITE, a natural red mite repellent in poultry, during the 25th Latin America Poultry Congress in Guadalajara, Mexico.
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With the ever increasing need for animal protein sources for human consumption, the poultry industry always coped up to meet the needs at an affordable manner. The conditions in developing countries for the production of either broiler or table egg may not be entirely free of unseen losses. The following article will review briefly about such losses by gut disorders and the approaches to avoid the same. Broiler production in major countries is estimated to total 74,237,000...
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The impact of extruded soybean processing temperatures conditions on broiler’s ileal and cecal microbiota
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The World Veterinary Education in Production Animal Health (WVEPAH) is a non-profit organization, which, with the support of OIE, offers to experts in veterinary poultry production the possibility to complete and officially certify their previously acquired skills.
In the world of high-level experts, they specialize in various fields such as practitioners, employees of pharmaceutical firms, the food industry and veterinary service or in poultry education. The level of expertise in...
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Infectious bursal disease (also known as IBD, Gumboro Disease, Infectious Bursitis and Infectious Avian Nephrosis) is a highly contagious disease of young chickens caused by infectious bursal disease virus (IBDV), characterized by immunosuppression and mortality generally at 3 to 6 weeks of age. The disease was first discovered in the USA, near the town of Gumboro, Delaware in 1962. It is economically important to the poultry industry worldwide due to increased susceptibility to other...
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Introduction Aspergillosis is frequent, economically important, fungal disease of different avian and mammal species caused by fungi of the genus Aspergillus. The disease is characterized by inflammatory changes in the respiratory system and sometimes has generalized onset when more organ systems are affected. Clinical signs of aspergillosis depend upon which organ or system organ are involved and whether infection is...
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Patti J. Miller, Veterinary Medical Officer at the Southeast Poultry Research Laboratory (USDA), discussed her research on killed and live NDV vaccines against virulent NDV strains, during IPPE 2017 in Atlanta, USA. ...
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Innovative Directions in Aflatoxin Testing Point to Measureable Gains in Quality Of Lab Data
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Dear colleagues, This is a case of a 6000 layers flock, 36 weeks of age. 1.5 months ago the flock was suspected and tested for salmonellosis which came out to be positive. The flock was treated with gentamicin and bcomplex injection for 3 consecutive days. The mortality was reduced for a few days but then it increased again. The post mortem lesions show extremely fragile liver and blackish necrotic mucosa at the duodenal part. Copper sulphate and...
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Julie Feyaerts, Product Manager Phytogenic Products for Nutrex, talks to us about new products for poultry, respiratory difficulties and plant-based solutions for them, during Eurotier 2016, in Hannover, Germany....
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