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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.
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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FIGAP 2026: The Scientific And Technological Exhibition Of The Livestock Industry
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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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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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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, explains how innovative lighting solutions can improve bird welfare, optimize farm conditions, and enhance overall poultry performance. ...
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Effective Solutions for Preventing and Treating CRD in Poultry with Natural and Conventional Approaches
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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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Leg health is an integral part of the economics of poultry. It is estimated that approximately 12.5 billion poultry worldwide suffer from various leg injuries each year (Nicol, 2013; Xu et al.,2025). According to a review of Huang et al (2023), leg diseases in the United States have caused economic losses of more than 80 million to 120 million US dollars in the broiler industry (Huang et al. 2023). These could indirectly lead to a further decline in reprocessing margins and reduce the gross...
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The impact of Salmonella on the poultry industry is not only related to animal health and public health, but also poses a problem with consequences for the international trade in poultry products and by-products, as well as for the reputation of companies. Flies can act as mechanical and biological vectors of this pathogen on poultry farms, as they have the potential to introduce and spread it within the facilities. To study the persistence of the microorganism at different stages of...
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The online paper submission portal will be open from 1st July 2026 through 18th September 2026.
If you wish to be part of next year's symposium, don't delay. Submit your paper as early as possible.
Please note that once your paper is accepted, you are expected to attend and present it at the APSS 2027,...
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An Exclusive Interview with O.P. Singh, Managing Director – ABTL, Huvepharma SEA Pune Pvt. Ltd., NNIPL, OpusPet. Founder – Hello Protein
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The man quietly reshaping how India and the world feed its birds.
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The Poultry Research Foundation, in conjunction with WPSA - Australian Branch, cordially invites you to attend the 38th Annual Australian Poultry Science Symposium, to be held at The University of Sydney Business School Belinda Hutchinson Building (H70) (Camperdown Campus), Monday 1st - Wednesday 3rd, February,...
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Technical Advances in Vitamin Physical Properties and Premix Performance
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Background North Carolina’s poultry farmers produced 36 million turkeys and 800 million broiler chickens in 2012 (NASS, 2013). Most turkeys and broilers are raised on bedding such as wood shavings, peanut hulls, or sawdust. Fecal material, spilled feed and water, and feathers accumulate on the bedding, creating a material known as cake. The material beneath the cake, which is mostly bedding with some fecal and feed constituents, is known as litter. In North Carolina, most...
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1 | Introduction Broiler production fundamentally depends on the quality of fertile eggs and chick output, with incubation representing a critical process in this context. For production efficiency, day‐old chicks must exhibit high physical, sanitary, and immunological qualities (Araújo et al. 2019). Chick quality at hatch is strongly associated with broiler performance throughout the production cycle, directly influencing the productivity of the poultry industry...
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