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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.
Species Rickets and nutritionally based bone problems occur very frequently in backyard and specialty types of birds. All birds, particularly fast growing birds fed "home-formulated" diets may be affected. Status in Canada Nutritional bone problems occur commonly any bird species fed diets other than...
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Jean-Pierre Vaillancourt (University of Montreal) talked about biosecurity and the risk factors associated with infectious diseases, during the Latin American Poultry Congress in Lima, Peru....
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Oxidative stress in animal production: how is it generated and how can we reduce it?
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Dermanyssus gallinae (also known as red mite or poultry mite) is an ectoparasite of poultry that feeds on the blood of the animal. It causes itching, general discomfort, stress, anemia, fatigue, feather pecking, cannibalism and sometimes death. In laying hens, it worsens feed conversion, reduces the laying rate and impairs egg quality (eggs show pale yolks and fragile shells; eggs may be covered by mites or blood stains)....
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Hi friends. Does anybody know how long does it take to disappear red hock and red dot signs in the day old chicks (because of high temperature and low humidity in the hatchery) after hatching? ...
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40 Years of Success in China with Hy-Line (Mandarin-language video)
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Necrotic enteritis is the result of the overgrowth of Clostridium perfringens in the upper part of the intestines. Clostridum perfringens is a Gram-positive bacteria and forms spores that are extremely resistant to desiccation, heat, disinfectants, and UV radiation, and as a consequence, it...
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Age 16 month. Mortality 5-6 per day. Flock size 1600. ...
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Introducing Afla-V ONE: Safe, Sustainable Aflatoxin Detection for Complete Feeds and Pet Foods
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The term cage layer fatigue was initially used in North America (Couch, 1955) to describe a leg weakness in high producing hens housed in cages. Caged layer fatigue (CLF) seems to be an extreme consequence of loss of structural bone in the vertebrae that leads to spinal bone collapse and paralysis...
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The WVEPAH course ‘Egg Layers’ is now available online. This course is an extensive overview of important infectious and non-infectious diseases at different stages of the egg layer’s production process. Participants will be trained to...
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New Generation of Water-Soluble Probiotics to Alleviate Gut Health Challenge During Feed Transition Period in Broiler Production
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The Evonik Corporation award is an annual award given as an achievement award, i.e., for distinctive contributions to poultry science advancement, covering a period of not more than seven years preceding the annual award.
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This award acknowledges the contributions by support personnel and recognizes outstanding support of research, extension, or teaching programs in poultry science. This is an annual award.
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Introduction Poultry, also recognized as universal food, as poultry meat and eggs enjoy zero religious’ restrictions, unlike pork and beef [1]. Being universal and accepted by all religions, the demand of poultry increased globally hence the trend of rearing is also increased. Poultry meat and eggs are the main source of protein, household nutrition and income in developing countries [2]. In Somali economy, still the Livestock sector acts as a crucial component and becomes...
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Dear members, I would like to know your opinion about the use of recombinant vaccines to prevent ILT, Newcastle disease and Marek´s Disease in chickens. What are the advantages and disadvantages in comparison with Conventional Poultry Vaccines? Look forward to hearing your experiences! ...
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I am poultry vet from Pakistan. It is very hot in Pakistan plain areas and mostly I observe typhoid fever in poultry farms. I use neomycin and furaltadone combination along with water supplements to treat fever and some times florfenicol salt to treat high typhoid fever, but in some farms this practice is not giving me so much good results as it should and I observe enteritis along with typhoid fever and give the same treatment along with probiotics in feed. But from some days not so much...
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Intestinal integrity for commercial poultry can be defined as the maintenance of intestinal health to enable the expression of the full genetic potential for growth and yield and to fully utilize the dietary nutrients. Evaluation of intestinal integrity in broiler production involves multiple approaches that involve assessment of production records, clinical examination of the flock, necropsy examination, and histopathology. Additional assessments are applied for...
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Effects of Muco-defen® on Clostridium perfringens-induced necrotic enteritis in broilers
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Fowl cholera, caused by Pasteurella multocida, remains a major problem of poultry worldwide. In the current report, we describe an outbreak in free range organic broilers. In addition to culturing samples from dead broilers, we attempted to isolate P. multocida from feral cats trapped on the farm. The isolates were identified by PCR as P. multocida and then serotyped using the Heddleston scheme and genotyped using both a multilocus sequence typing (MLST) method and an enterobacterial...
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pictures of poultry diseases for leraning , presentation materials...
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Combs, wattles and earlobes that are rich and glossy in colour, and have increased in size, indicates a healthy, laying hen. On the other hand, a hen displaying short, pale and hard combs and wattles signifies they are not in lay. ...
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For the poultry industry, the old saying of horsemen, ”no foot, no horse”, could be re-phrased into “no foot, no bird”. The rapid growth rate and large size of meat poultry poses a challenge on their foot health. Add to...
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Oxidative stress in animal production: how is it generated and how can we reduce it?
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4 weeks broiler chicks liver enlarged, blood spots, discolor and kidney are also inflamed ...
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This Pale Liver Complaint is found in many Farms .mortality is not increasing but processing plant people raises the issue due to Huge rejection of Liver in Market. We are Trying with Anichol L (Cholene) IBH vaccination in day old. MD vaccination in day old, but the problem is still increasing from branch to branch, kindly give me your valuable suggestions. ...
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