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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.
The term antibiotic resistance has several definitions, and when it is described as a phenotypic trait, there are different cut-off points for determining whether an organism is susceptible to an antibiotic or completely resistant. Misunderstandings also surround questions such as how resistance develops, where it comes from, and when or if it will disappear.
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The Poultry CRC continues to attract exemplary PhD candidates. One of our latest recruits, veterinarian Dr Jemma Bergfeld (based at CSIRO’s Australian Animal Health Laboratory [AAHL]) is set to unravel the mechanisms underlying Newcastle Disease (ND). Caused by virulent strains of avian paramyxovirus type 1 (APMV1), this devastating and...
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Candidate Genes Associated with Survival Following Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza Infection in Chickens
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Introduction In Asia and some tropical countries of Africa, edible and medicinal mushrooms such as Pleurotus ostreatus and Ganoderma lucidum are used as food supplements and medicines to improve various parameters of human health and immune functions in certain disease conditions (Chang and Buswell, 1996; Chang and Mshigeni, 2001; Anthony and Joyce, 2007). Many literatures are...
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Antimicrobial or antibiotic resistance is an emotive and often misunderstood topic. It is a subject that many, including governments, academics and consumers, use as a stick to beat our industry with! With this article we hope to give you a clearer picture of some of the issues involved and endeavour to look at the subject from a practical/field point of view rather than a theoretical/academic position.
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INTRODUCTION In Nigeria, the rearing of poultry such as domestic chickens, guinea fowls, ducks, and turkeys and of recent quails and ostriches is well known. Most of these species of birds are managed either in the traditional (extensive) or the semi-intensive and intensive systems of management (Smith, 2001 and Nwagu, 2002). However,...
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What measures should be adopted in case of wet litter condition in winter as it reduces production capability of layers? ...
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Could anyone share your comments for diagnosis of ILT inclusions in this picture? Trachea of a layer......
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How would it be possible to reduce Downgrading of Broiler Chicken Carcass due to red and broken wings? ...
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Dirty egg problem solved by dietary tributyrin supplementation in layers
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Avian chlamydiosis is a zoonotic disease occurring among birds especially turkey and pigeons, characterized by respiratory, digestive, or systemic infection. It was earlier known as ‘Psittacosis’ or ‘Parrot fever’ since the disease originally recognized in psittacine birds and humans in contact with these birds. The term ‘Ornithosis’ was introduced in 1941, to refer to chlamydial disease in, or contracted from, domestic poultry...
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What are the different methods to control broiler chicken as it a burning problem at present? ...
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Haroldo Toro, DVM and Ph.D, Professor at Auburn University, USA, talks about Avian Infectious Anemia, the most visible signs of this disease, methods to control it and about vaccines available in the market, during the XXII Latin American Poultry Congress in Buenos Aires, Argentina. ...
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A polymelus monster was observed in farm mainly described as Polymelia is a birth defect involving limbs (a type of dysmelia), in which the affected individual/animal has more than the usual number of limbs. In poultry upto 3 legs has been observed but this has four legs and the point to be noted that it has survived for five weeks and still alive. The extra limb is most commonly shrunken and/or deformed but not in this case as it too looks healthy the bird has...
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