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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.
Kenneth Anderson (NC State University) explained the influence of high space allowance on increased egg production and feed conversion, among other factors, during IPPE 2018 in Atlanta, USA....
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Highlights from the conversation with Michael Kogut, Roseline Angel, Santiago Ramirez, Sergio Luiz Vieira, Doug Korver and Luis Miguel Gomez, who joined Elizabeth Santin and Mariana Lemos de Moraes for this roundtable, during the 1st PoultryUniverse Coccidiosis Congress in Curitiba, Brazil....
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Tom Tabler (Mississippi State University) spoke on the common hygiene procedures to follow in order to avoid the appearance of avian influenza and other diseases in the farm, during IPPE 2018 in Atlanta, USA....
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Diego Martínez Patiño-Patroni (Ilender Corp.) shared the findings of two posters presented during IPPE 2018 in Atlanta, USA....
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Dr. Scott M. Russell, Professor of Poultry Processing and Products Microbiology at the University of Georgia, gave a lecture at the XXII Latin American Poultry Congress in Buenos Aires, Argentina about Microbiologic control within slaughter plants to prevent Salmonella and Campylobacter. ...
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Introduction The lesser mealworm Alphitobius diaperinus (Panzer) (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) is a ubiquitous and significant insect pest in commercial poultry house litter. The young chicks ingest larval and adult of the lesser mealworms, which negatively affects their performance and behavior, and causes gastrointestinal lesions (Despins & Axtel, 1995; Japp, 2008). The insect plays a potential role as vector of viruses, protozoa (Eimeria), and bacteria (Campylobacter and...
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Water is one of the most important feed ingredients in the diet. Clean water improves the animal’s performance and acidifying drinking water may even suppress bacteria that have a negative influence on performance. But there’s more to acidifying the water than just adding a simple acid. By Ing. Pascal Philipsen, technical-marketing manager Impextraco, Belgium We sometimes tend to forget that drinking water has a large impact on the health...
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On April 16-18, 2018, the Hot Weather Management Workshop will be conducted at the Oconee County Civic Center in Watkinsville, Georgia, a few miles from the University of Georgia. This intensive training program has been specifically designed for those who want to learn more about the design and management of modern poultry houses. The workshop consists of lectures as well as hands on group exercises designed to help attendees gain a firm understanding of the principles behind hot weather...
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Often heard, frequently misunderstood, “biosecurity” is a set of practices that all poultry owners should know and implement to protect their poultry flocks from a disease. Birds that are raised under pastured or free-range management styles are particularly in need of attention due to their increased exposure to environmental disease sources.
What is biosecurity?
Biosecurity is the practice of minimizing...
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On a Broiler Breeder farm it becomes very difficult to keep the birds comfortable with "Evaporative Cooling System" when HUMIDITY levels are very high. Do you have any suggestion? ...
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Water is a necessary component of producing a safe and wholesome source of protein. While the poultry and the egg industry has a long history of efficiently utilizing water in poultry and egg processing plants, the industry consistently faces new challenges ranging from bacteria thresholds in stormwater to the carryover of antimicrobial compounds into wastewater treatment plants. The U.S. Poultry & Egg Association (USPOULTRY) is hosting an education program that examines some of the...
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Knowing how much water an evaporative cooling system will use during hot weather can prove to be a very useful piece of information. For instance, to properly size well pumps, pressure tanks and water distribution pipes, designers must know the peak...
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Background An H5 HPAIV outbreak that began in December 2014 and lasted 6 months through June 2015 was the 5th highly pathogenic avian influenza virus (HPAIV) outbreak in the US since the 1920’s and was the most geographically widespread. Direct and indirect costs to the US economy were estimated to be near $3.3 billion USD [1]. The hemagglutinin (HA) gene was determined to belong to clade 2.3.4.4 of the goose/Guangdong/1996 (GS/GD/96) H5 lineage of HPAIV and was...
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Brian Fairchild, Professor at the University of Georgia, discussed recent research on temperature, air speed and humidity on poultry housing conditions and ventilation, during IPPE 2017 in Atlanta, USA....
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Introduction During summer, high ambient temperature is one of the most important environmental stressors adversely affecting poultry health [1–2]. Hens to loss heat are limited due to feathering and the absence of sweat glands [1]. A hen can tolerate and adapt to ambient temperatures up to 25°C (77°F); temperatures above this level can lead to heat stress (HS) as a combination of hen’s physical heat production plus the environmental heat load is greater...
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Introduction Composting is a natural process where beneficial microorganisms decompose and transform organic materials into a useful and biologically stable end-product that is safe for the environment. This process has worked well for many poultry producers nationwide as a means of processing their daily poultry mortality. Large volumes of poultry mortality have commonly been disposed...
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Stewart Ritchie, President at Canadian Poultry Consultants Ltd., points out the main aspects of Platinum Brooding® program, which offers continuing education teachings about poultry health management, during the Intestinal Health Workshop, at the North Carolina State University, supported by DSM Nutritional Products...
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Water is the most important nutrient for poultry. Unfortunately it is very much neglected by most poultry farmers in Asian countries and other countries in the world. Water has numerous functions in the body of chicken. It is involved in all digestion processes, it transport all nutrients in the body of chicken, regulates the body temperature and is responsible for elimination of wastes from chicken’s body. Most importantly it is involved in numerous metabolic and enzymatic actions in...
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Incidence in broiler chicks.
Chicks have not started uniformly, drinking and feeding, on arrival.
The signs have started appearing from day 2 and persisted till 7-8 days. First 3 days with high incidence, but later continued in grown up birds as well.
Signs of inco-ordination, head tremor, walking back then progressed to lateral recumbancy and succumbed. Very few had swelling around eyes.
Poor feed consumption and weight gain and variation in size.
On PM, signs of dehydration early on, un...
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