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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.
In a recent survey, it was estimated that the cost of subclinical necrotic enteritis was as high as $0.05 per bird (Van der Sluis, 2000). Using these estimates and 1999 estimates on world broiler meat production, the cost of necrotic enteritis to the poultry industry globally is nearly $2 billion (Anonymous, 2000). Both clinical and subclinical necrotic enteritis is common in all poultry growing areas of the world (Van der Sluis, 2000). The disease was first described by Parish (1961) and...
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The ban of antibiotics in Europe has driven worldwide the implementation of alternative strategies in order to prevent proliferation of pathogenic bacteria, thus maintaining health and performance status and optimizing digestion in poultry. Several approaches have been developed to directly...
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Animal health company Merial in the US has sold its St. Louis blending facility and rights to certain anticoccidial products to Huvepharma.
In addition to the physical facilities, the two companies have also reached agreement for transfer of marketing rights for a number of products manufactured at the site, which are mainly anticoccidials for use in poultry:
• Amprol® (amprolium) 25% Premix (sold in US and Canada)
• Amprol 20% soluble powder (sold in US)
• Amprol 9.6% solution (US...
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Each year, U.S. poultry producers raise about 7 billion broilers. They use a combination of antibiotics and vaccines to protect these birds from infectious diseases. Antibiotics are critical to ongoing efforts to fight off diseases and infections; they have been able to kill or stop growth of many different kinds of protozoa and parasites as well as bacteria.
One major disease of chickens -- coccidiosis -- is named after intestinal parasites collectively referred to as coccidia, which are...
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Ohio State University's Center for Diagnostic Assays (CDA) has come up with a first-of-its-kind test for the detection of very virulent infectious bursal disease virus (vvIBDV), a highly contagious disease of poultry that is causing major losses to this multibillion-dollar industry worldwide and is threatening to invade the U.S. Daral Jackwood, a molecular biologist with the university's Food Animal Health Research Program (FAHRP) on the Ohio Agricultural Research and Development...
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Wide use of a mushroom extract to protect poultry against a major parasitic disease is now closer, thanks to an Agricultural Research Service scientist and her South Korean colleagues.
The researchers -- led by immunologist Hyun Lillehoj at the ARS Animal Parasitic Diseases Laboratory in Beltsville, Md. -- developed a technique for controlling coccidiosis, which costs the world's poultry industry billions of dollars in losses annually.
The new method is the subject of a patent...
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South Korean quarantine officials are to slaughter 236,000 poultry after an outbreak of the H5N1 form of bird flu at a chicken farm.
The outbreak occurred at a farm in Iksan, about 250km (155 miles) south of Seoul, earlier this week.
Test results confirmed the outbreak was caused by a type of H5N1 virus, the country's agriculture ministry said.
It said all birds within a 500-metre (1,650-foot) radius would be culled to prevent the virus from spreading.
The ministry also said it...
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The European Commission has approved a financial package of €193 million to support programmes to eradicate, control and monitor animal diseases in 2007. The 155 programmes which were selected for EU funding will tackle animal diseases that impact both human and animal health. The large EU contribution towards these programmes reflects the high level of importance attached to disease eradication measures, for the protection of both animal and public health. Markos Kyprianou,...
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Laboratory results received today have confirmed Newcastle Disease on a poultry holding in East Lothian. The results from Veterinary Laboratories Agency in Weybridge follow investigation of suspect disease at the holding in Fenton Barns, Drem. Newcastle Disease is a disease of poultry. It is not Avian Influenza and has no significant implications for public health. In response to this confirmation the Scottish Executive, Defra and the State Veterinary Service are...
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Warnex Inc. announced that its Salmonella test used with the Warnex TM Rapid Pathogen Detection System has been approved by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Poultry Improvement Plan (NPIP). The objective of the National Poultry Improvement Plan is to provide a cooperative industry-state-federal program through which new technology can be effectively applied to the improvement of poultry and poultry products. The plan consists of a variety of programs...
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Texas Tech University researcher Dr. Mindy Brashears has developed a treatment shown to reduce foodborne pathogens such as salmonella and E. coli 0157:H7 in processed beef and poultry.
In a seeming paradox, a mixture of "good" lactic acid bacteria kills "bad" bacteria to reduce foodborne pathogens such as salmonella and E. coli 0157:H7 in processed beef and poultry by as much as 99.99 percent.
The mixture, to be sold under the name Bovamine Meat Cultures, has passed GRAS (generally...
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China has banned import of poultry products from the Amazonas State, Brazil, said the Chinese Ministry of Agriculture on Monday.
Poultry products imported from Amazonas State after the outbreak of the Newcastle disease there should be sent back or destroyed, said the ministry in a joint statement with the State Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine.
Brazilian scientists identified Newcastle virus on a farm in Amazonas State on June 21.
If ships, aircraft...
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The U.S. Departments of Agriculture and Interior today announced that routine surveillance has indicated the presence of H5 and N1 avian influenza subtypes in samples from two wild mute swans in Michigan, but testing has ruled out the possibility of this being the highly pathogenic H5N1 strain that has spread through birds in Asia, Europe and Africa.
Test results thus far indicate this is low pathogenicity avian influenza, which poses no threat to human health.
The swans were sampled as...
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Consumer concerns about campylobacter have been high on the agenda at today's meeting of the Poultry Industry Association of New Zealand (PIANZ).
The PIANZ board gathered in Auckland to hear the latest international developments on campylobacter, a bacterium which continues to cause headaches for food safety experts all over the world.
Board members agreed on several measures, aimed at highlighting the industry's ongoing campaign to reduce campylobacter levels in raw poultry products....
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What are pathognomic lesions for diseases and mortalities due to chilling and high temperatures? Could anybody tell some information about it? I occasionally get confused regarding postmortem findings in chickens. Moreover, I have not been able to find any books or notes about it yet. Could anybody help me? Thanks in advance. ...
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A new report released today by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) shows measures used to reduce salmonella contamination on layer flock holdings appear to be working.
Vets who tested dust and other material found in poultry houses, as well as bird faeces, in 454 farms in the UK found only 12 per cent to show evidence of contamination. The comparatively low figure is encouraging as it ranks the UK infection rate among the lowest third in Europe. All EU member states were required to...
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Merial’s Avian business announced today the launch of Vaxxitek® HVT+IBD, the poultry industry’s first one-dose, hatchery vaccination specifically designed to protect against Classic, Variant or vvIBD strains of Infectious Bursal Disease (IBD). Vaxxitek® HVT+IBD has recently been approved for sale and use in Brazil with additional country approvals pending.
After in-ovo or day old injection, Vaxxitek® HVT+IBD is unique in that it provides effective control and improved performance against...
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The Barbados Egg and Poultry Producers’ Association will have a meeting in another six weeks with poultry farmers to discuss a $55 million insurance fund.
This was revealed yesterday by president of the Barbados Egg and Poultry Producers Association Carlyle Brathwaite as he gave remarks at a seminar on the avian influenza at the Sherbourne Conference Centre, yesterday morning.
Brathwaite said he was proposing the meeting with poultry farmers “so as to sit down with them and outline the...
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Its showing external death position, Broiler birds, age 21 days, last two days mortality 40 out of 1150 p. postmortem shows swollen bursa with congestion at middle intestine. what are another the cause except IBD. how can over come it? its available in bangladesh with IBD....
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I have 10000 layers which have been ill for almost 2 months...they have CRD and Mycoplasma gallisepticum infection. After they got infected with pox and then IB infections., we treated them with tylosin, doxy, timulin, amantadin, avilosin, linkomycin and oxytetra, etc.....but after 2 months mortality is 15 / days....we stopped all medication but still mortality...pox is also present...what can I do? Bird age is 7 months ...
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