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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.
Identifying individual birds that are suffering or that have compromised health and welfare is key to maintaining high standards of poultry care. Knowing your birds and when they are ill or in pain is imperative for identifying birds that need treatment or that might need to be euthanized....
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It is very important to have good uniformity in broilers to maximize the performance. Variation in their body weights causes lot of complications and problems. If the flock is not uniform, it will take longer time to grow and many rejections at slaughter house. Different type of enteric and other diseases can easily disturb the flock resulting in severe economic losses. FCR is badly affected by unevenness in a flock and the result is less profitability. If the...
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Compromised leg health is a welfare and economic concern for meat chickens. Enrichment of the production environment via the provision of perches has been a focal point of research into reducing the prevalence of leg disorders in recent years. Despite inconsistent evidence of the effect of perches (Groves and Muir 2013; Phibbs et al. 2019), they are provided in almost two thirds of the Australian meat chicken industry, with 2.7 m perch/1000 birds required under the RSPCA Approved Farming...
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Higher stocking density linked to lower body weight and weight gain, but is total antioxidant capacity the culprit?
Poultry scientists have found that a goose’s performance is closely tied to their housing conditions. But while there are several studies linking high stocking density to health problems in geese, research is lacking when it comes to the actual physiological drivers behind...
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Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology has been used for animal behaviour and welfare research, to monitor animal location and resource utilization. The aim of this study was to develop and validate an in-house custom built ultra-high frequency (UHF) RFID system to be used on a commercial free-range egg farm with three-tier aviaries. The system was designed and constructed to detect hens in certain areas (feeders, nest boxes, range) within the housing system. Briefly, Speedway R420...
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1. Introduction In Pakistan, the poultry production sector in the form of eggs and meat is playing a pivotal role in bridging the gap between the supply and demand of animal protein. Presently this sector is producing 1681.64 metric tonnes of meat and 16,797 million eggs and these figures are in a constant increase [1]. Previously, egg production was limited to the backyard poultry, where desi hens having little potential for this very economical trait were used. The addition of...
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The need to reduce heat stress and oxidative stress in poultry is crucial to maintain bird performance and optimal margins for farmers. Phileo’s experts discuss how to mitigates the detrimental effects of heat stress using premium quality yeast cell walls. J...
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Jeroen Dewulf (Ghent University) talked about Biocheck, a risk-based scoring system developed to measure the level of biosecurity at animal farms, during IPVS2022 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil....
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The Poultry Research Foundation, in conjunction with WPSA -Australian Branch, cordially invites you to the 34th Australian Poultry Science Symposium at the Sheraton Grand Sydney Hyde Park.
The Australian Poultry Science Symposium is the premier avian science conference in Australia, attracting delegates from right across the country and around the world. This year our conference will focus on an over-arching theme of: “Global Volatility and Poultry Industry...
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PSA interviewed Ken Macklin (Auburn University) to hear his insights regarding the COVID-19 pandemic's effects on the poultry industry and biosecurity measures in place. Let's Squawk About It is a monthly interview segment by the Poultry Science Association....
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Supplemental Bacillus subtilis DSM 32315 modulates intestinal structure, microbial composition and improve the performance in broiler chickens
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INTRODUCTION The Amazon rainforest is an important regulatory mechanism of the tropical atmosphere and its climate variation, performing important functions in the climate equilibrium of several ecosystems and their inhabitants. The region also has unique climate and environment characteristics (Fisch et al., 1998). The development of poultry production in the region thus presents several challenges related to birds’ environmental comfort, depending on the type of...
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Join us one hour a week (June 2022 – August 2022) to connect with cutting-edge speakers and panelists. Contribute your insights and experiences! Your participation shapes the concepts that will fuel the Summit. Can’t attend all the webinars live? Each webinar builds towards the Summit and will be recorded so you can stay current. Stay connected and informed and participate in discussion boards to keep the weekly conversation going.
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Royal Agrifirm Group has chosen Porphyrio® software as integration partner for its PoultryNEXT platform.
Royal Agrifirm Group (RAG) – whose motto is “Better...
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INTRODUCTION In recent years, interest in the welfare of hens has been increasing. The public and activist groups than by scientific evidence have influenced much of current European legislation on the welfare of laying hens more. These groups proposed that the European Union abolish the cage housing system by the enriched cage system (750 cm 2 of surface per bird); where the hens also have perches and nesting material (Bulmer y Gil, 2008). In this regard, in the...
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(Mandarin) Strengthening Pellets for Better Feed Performance
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Figure 1. Evaporative cooling system with plastic pads. Little has changed when it comes to poultry house evaporative cooling pads over the last 30 years. Yes, there have been some relatively minor changes in things such as...
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Middle East has experienced an excessive temperature this summer and this affected the poultry industry and caused giant losses in farms and hen houses. In our region, as a general rule, the area fro rearing is 10 birds/m2 for broilers, 8 birds/m2, and 5 birds/m2 for broiler breeders. The natural summer temperature in our country is 29-33°C. We can control it with ventilation and cooling but this case is out of control. The results were: In Broilers:...
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Introduction Controlling production costs and animal welfare are important factors for breeders. Feed accounts for 50 to 70% of the production cost in poultry production (van Horne, 2018). The feed conversion ratio (FCR), which is the ratio of feed consumption to meat or egg production, is an important criterion for the profitability of these farms. It is also an indicator of the environmental impact of production. For example, the reduction of 10% in FCR results in a reduction...
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This award recognizes original research on poultry welfare in any discipline that has been published in the last five years (2017-2021).
Alexandra Harlander
University of...
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This award is given to recognize the outstanding record of turkey research published in the last six years (2016-2021).
Marisa Erasmus
Purdue University
Marisa Erasmus is...
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