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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.
The air speed in a tunnel-ventilated house is determined simply by dividing a house’s tunnel fan capacity by the cross-sectional area of the house: Air speed = Tunnel fan capacity (cubic feet per min) Cross-sectional area (square feet) To increase air speed, either tunnel fan capacity needs to be increased or the house’s cross-sectional area decreased. Air speed is...
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1. Introduction Observational, technical, and analytical skills are necessary for veterinary physicians [1,2]. For professional praxis, for instance, observation as well as pattern recognition skills within the environment are important for detecting and treating relevant diseases and conditions [3,4]. Moreover, these skills are relevant as the environment, along with demographic factors, influences animal health [5]. Recognizing patterns in nature is crucial for proposing novel...
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In cage-free housing, multi-tiered aviary structures are often used (pictured above), where key resources (i.e., feed, water, nests, perches) are available on elevated platforms called tiers, and litter substrate is available on the ground floor for dustbathing and foraging. Hens move vertically and horizontally...
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Bio-security is the cheapest, most effective means of disease prevention and control available. Proper bio-security will help to ensure the overall health and welfare of your flock. ...
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Unlike many aspects of operating a tunnel-ventilated house during hot weather, the performance of an evaporative cooling pad system is relatively predictable. This is because there are well defined relationships between the cooling produced by a pad system and water usage, pad area, outside temperature/humidity, and water temperature. Since most evaporative cooling pads are essentially identical and the summertime conditions are fairly similar across most poultry growing areas of the U.S.,...
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There are essentially two types of poultry house circulation fan systems: vertical and horizontal. In a vertical circulation fan system, fans are located in the center of the house, typically near the ceiling, and are oriented to blow straight down towards the floor. The air then moves across the floor, up the side walls, and back...
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Preventing injury to a chicken’s foot pads (paws) is very important for a number of reasons. First, chicken paws are a valuable product, a delicacy in some cultures, and often sell for as much as two to three times as breast meat on a per-pound basis. Secondly, foot pad lesions can become infected, resulting in leg problems and a decrease in overall bird performance. Last but not least, a chicken’s feet are a good indicator of litter quality. Numerous studies have documented the...
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A properly designed circulation fan system can provide a grower with a variety of benefits. During cold weather, circulation fans can transfer hot air collecting near the ceiling to bird level, increasing floor temperatures and decreasing heating costs. Circulation fans can also help move warm air from the center of a house towards the cooler...
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Negative pressure ventilation is the most popular method of ventilating poultry houses during cold weather due to it’s simplicity and relatively low initial and operating costs. Exhaust fans create a low-pressure zone within a house and give a producer precise control over the amount of fresh air brought into a house. Air inlets uniformly distribute fresh air drawn in by the exhaust fans throughout the house and direct it along the ceiling, where the hot air (produced by the...
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Annelies Kers (Utrecht University) Knowledge of factors that influence the functioning of gut microbes is essential to improve health and reduce the use of antibiotics in poultry production. The environment, and more specifically housing conditions, can affect the gut microbiome of broiler chickens. The gut microbiome is defined as the collection of all the microorganisms and their “theatre of activity” in the gut environment. Previous...
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Ben Dellaert (Secretary General, AVINED / International Egg Commission), comments on the position of the IEC regarding avian influenza vaccination and the worldwide efforts to control the disease, during Avicola Porcinos 2023 in Buenos Aires, Argentina....
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Alex Alonso Wang (Big Herdsman) shows their poultry and swine equipment, explaining the features and benefits of the layer cage and the sow pen, during the Avicola Porcinos Expo 2023 in Buenos Aires, Argentina....
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Christos Gougoulias (Innovad) Modern poultry broiler production strives for the maximum live weight, which can contribute to chronic intestinal inflammation and broader metabolic syndromes. There is thus a need to establish realistic models that help the industry. Several challenge models have been proposed by the scientific community and these include biological agents or pathogens, chemicals, reused litter, and, more recently, different non-starch...
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Christos Gougoulias (Innovad) talks about chronic intestinal inflammation models under real farming conditions, during the 11th Symposium on Gut Health in Production of Food Animals in St. Louis, USA....
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Annelies Kers (Utrecht University) speaks on the relation between the gut microbiome of chickens and their environment, during the 11th Symposium on Gut Health in Production of Food Animals in St. Louis, USA....
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Mr. O.P. Singh, Managing Director of ABTL Enzymes, shares his experience and tips on some steps to develop a strong brand in this sector...
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If there is one thing that has always characterised Liptosa , it is its entrepreneurial and innovative spirit , developing and manufacturing a wide range of solutions for the national and European market, and its firm commitment to internationalisation, reflected in its presence in more than 60 countries around the world . There is therefore no doubt about the fundamental role played by the Regulatory Affairs Department within the company and its crucial role in...
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Poultry industry experts at the 2024 Latin American Poultry Summit will present information on topics that address avian influenza concerns. The program is organized into four sessions, and the first two sessions will be “Epidemiology of Avian Influenza” and “Vaccination.” Each session will feature two speakers followed by a panel discussion. The Summit is presented by the International Poultry Expo (IPE), part of the International Production & Processing Expo...
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‘Smothering’ in poultry occurs when birds mass together, often on top of each other, resulting in death from suffocation (Bright and Johnson, 2011). The small number of reports documenting the incidence of smothering indicate that it accounts for a substantial proportion of overall mortality in free range layer flocks (Barrett et al., 2014; Bright and Johnson, 2011). In 2019 Australian Eggs Limited funded the Animal Welfare Science Centre and the Veterinary Epidemiology...
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I. Introduction It is expected that the global demand for livestock products will increase by 70% by the year 2050 (Gerland et al., 2014). As one of the most high-protein and environmentally friendly sources, egg production is an important human food source. Intensive egg production enables the production of cheap, nutritious and readily available human food; however, one of the challenges is to ensure the production systems also can meet the birds' needs, including comfort,...
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