Poultry management
Poultry management usually refers to the husbandry practices or production techniques that help to maximize the efficiency of production. Sound management practices are very essential to optimize production. Scientific poultry management aims at maximizing returns with minimum investment. A carefully controlled environment that avoids crowding, chilling, overheating, or frightening is almost universal in poultry farming. Cannibalism, which expresses itself as toe picking, feather picking, and tail picking, is controlled by debeaking at one day of age and by other management practices. The feeding, watering, egg gathering, and cleaning operations are highly mechanized. Birds are usually housed in wire cages with two or three animals per cage, depending on the species and breed, and three or four tiers of cages superposed to save space. Cages for egg-laying birds have been found to increase production, lower mortality, reduce cannibalism, lower feeding requirements, reduce diseases and parasites, improve culling, and reduce both space and labour requirements.
1. Begin with a written design basis When an investor states that a project will house 30,000 layers, the number is only the beginning of the design. It must first be defined as installed cage places, planned flock placement, or birds expected to remain in production. These values are not always identical. The design basis should also state whether all birds will be the same age, whether pullets arrive ready to lay, whether expansion is planned and which supporting...
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Adisseo, a global leader in animal nutrition and health solutions and one of the world’s leading experts in feed additives, today announced that Li Bo has been elected Chairman of Adisseo’s Board of Directors on 11th September 2026 and appointed Chief Executive Officer to succeed Dr. Hao Zhigang, effective 1st November 2026.
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Introduction Cognition encompasses the mental processes involved in perceiving, processing, storing, and acting on information from the environment (Shettleworth, 2001). This includes a wide range of cognitive skills such as sensory perception memory, learning, decision making, reasoning, and problem solving (Dukas, 2004). The cognitive abilities of chicken are already highly developed in early life, with research demonstrating that the cognitive abilities of chicks include...
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1. Introduction Toxoplasma gondii is a cosmopolitan zoonotic apicomplexan protozoan capable of infecting all warm-blooded animals [1–3]. Its life cycle centers on felids as the sole definitive hosts, which shed environmentally resistant oocysts in their feces, while intermediate hosts harbor tissue cysts primarily in muscle and neural tissue [4,5]. Toxoplasmosis represents a public health concern; human infection occurs predominantly through consumption of undercooked meat...
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Mohammad Afrouziyeh (University of Alberta / Poultry Innovation Partnership) shares his recommendations and insights on water quality, as well as a new tool to control it, during this Engormix interview....
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I. INTRODUCTION Poultry house moisture contributes to many of the issues that poultry farms experience. As moisture builds in the litter/bedding, microbial populations thrive, more ammonia is generated, and the incidence and severity of footpad dermatitis increases. Much of the moisture in the house comes from the birds themselves, so in order to control moisture, one must understand the current moisture loads in the house. For example, broilers grow faster and convert feed more...
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1. Introduction The anti-predator behavior of roosting on the elevated structure shown by the ancestor of the domestic fowl (jungle fowl) has been seen in domesticated avian species even after they were reared in the indoor housing system [1,2]. The avian species, including the domestic fowl, exhibit the tendon-locking phenomenon, which allows them to express behaviors such as perching with minimal muscular effort [3,4]. Using aerial (raised) perches is considered a priority for...
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Gonzalo Moreno, President of FENAVI, highlights the strengths of the XXII FENAVI Congress 2026, which will take place from September 1-3 in Cali, Colombia. In this Interview, he emphasizes the unique features of the trade exhibition, the international visitors, and the conferences included in the congress's scientific program. ...
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I. INTRODUCTION Resilience is defined as the ability to successfully cope and thrive when faced with environmental disturbance, adversity, and stress. Across an animal’s lifetime, they will be exposed to many stressors that require the individual to adapt and maintain internal homeostasis against external variability. For a laying hen, these stressors could include pathogens, vaccinations, extreme temperature variations, transfer from pullet to layer housing, and conspecific...
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I. INTRODUCTION In recent years, there has been a growing public interest in animal welfare in Australia (De Witte, K., 2009). Consumers expect continual and comprehensive improvements in poultry production (Li, Ren, Li, & Zeng, 2020). The health and product quality of poultry also is linked to their welfare. Healthy hens with better emotions tend to lay more eggs of higher quality (Eggs, 2023). The assessment of the welfare of poultry commonly complies with the Welfare Quality...
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Recent research indicates that smothering accounts for up to 16% of mortality in adult laying hens in Australian commercial free-range egg farms (Hemsworth et al., 2022). In addition, UK data indicates that piling (a precursor to smothering where hens press tightly together into dense packs) has implications not only for the risk of mortality due to smothering, but also may negatively impact egg production (Armstrong et al., 2023). Smothering research to date has been focused on identifying...
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I. INTRODUCTION The physiological patterns of hen FI and BW trajectory are established by early lay (Muir et al. 2023a). Careful management of lighting and feeding patterns during rearing can regulate bird size and feeding habits by the end of rearing (Muir et al. 2023b). Whether this influences persistency of lay, efficiency of production and egg quality during an extended laying period is unknown. The lighting program during rearing can alter pullet age at first egg (AFE), the...
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Adult chickens utilise external circadian cues to schedule their daily cycles. In other taxa, developing embryos can actively entrain the timing of life transitions to a circadian rhythm (Villamizar et al., 2013, Saunders, 2002), but we currently have a poor understanding of how circadian rhythms develop in meat chicken embryos. Commercial poultry are not exposed to diurnal light changes during incubation, removing the possible use of such cues for optimising hatch timing. Synchronising...
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Mycotoxins are known to decrease health and performance in poultry production. Their modes of action, such as reducing protein synthesis and promoting oxidative stress and apoptosis, lead to cell destruction and lower cell replacement, affecting several organs and tissues. When different stress factors collude, such as high temperatures and humidity, poor ventilation, high stocking density, and management events, the effects of in-feed mycotoxins can reach a higher level, which may...
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1. Introduction The performance and activities of male breeders (roosters) are critical for egg fertility and hatchability in commercial layer and broiler breeding houses [1,2]. In a study, researchers found positive correlations between rooster body weight and both the laying intensity of fertilized eggs and the hatchability percentage of chicks [2]. A review by Kingor [1] underscores the importance of how the physical conditions and management of roosters can directly impact...
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Cristabel Huerta, Brightness Consultant at HATO Lighting, shares how intelligent lighting systems can help reduce energy consumption while supporting animal welfare and improving farm efficiency. ...
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Cristabel Huerta, Brightness Consultant at HATO Lighting, discusses the advantages of modern poultry lighting and the key challenges it can solve beyond basic illumination. ...
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Cristabel Huerta, Brightness Consultant at HATO Lighting, explains how improved dimming, natural lighting conditions, and HATO’s latest innovations help farmers create smarter, more sustainable, and productive poultry operations.
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Introduction With genetic improvement changes, today poultry species are more sensitive to nutritional and management changes which can easily induce osmoregulatory perturbation that can cause flushing (Many, 2023). A typical layer farm of 100,000 hens produces 1,500 to 2,000 tons of manure every year (Chai, 2012). And 1000 broilers chickens produce up to 1370 lbs of manure per in a growing cycle (Parker et al., 1959). Manure is acquired by the agricultural industry for land...
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