Animal Industry Report 2006
By the Department of Animal Science, Iowa State University - This article is Iowa State University's annual report of the research activities that relate to the animal agriculture industries. This report combines research reports from faculty associated...

Avian Vibrionic Hepatitis - Avian infectious hepatitis "spotty livers in laying hen"
By David G S Burch BVetMed MRCVS, Octagon Services Ltd - The condition was described first in 1954, as a chronic degeneration of the liver characterised by low morbidity and variable mortality in caged egg-producing flocks. Further cases, with 10% morbidity,...

The Future of Animal Agriculture in North America
By the Farm Foundation - This report examines the opportunities and challenges facing North America’s livestock sector, the driving forces behind these opportunities and challenges, and their potential consequences over the long term.

Vectored Vaccines for Avian Influenza
By David Swayne, USDA's Agricultural Research Service, Southeast Poultry Research Laboratory - Cases of avian influenza infections of poultry and humans have caused the world to be on alert for a pandemic. ARS veterinary medical officer and laboratory...

Physiological Stress in Laying Hens
By J. Odihambo Mumma, J. P. Thaxton, Y. Vizzier-Thaxton, and W. L. Dodson, Michigan State University - Stress responses in laying hens were mediated by continuous infusion of adrenocorticotropin (ACTH) via osmotic pumps. The ACTH was dissolved in saline...

UK Poultry Disease Quarterly Surveillance Report (to December 2005)
By Veterinary Laboratories Agency - This report monitors trends in the major endemic poultry diseases and utilises the farmfile and VIDA (Veterinary Investigation Disease Analysis) databases. The report is compiled using disease data gathered by the network...

Poultry Health - Keeping Diseases Out
By Ian Roth, Manager Field Veterinary Services and Product Integrity, Surveillance and Biosecurity Operations, Orange - This Primefact provides a brief overview of the importance of knowing your cost of production, and benchmarking to monitor business...

Coccidiosis and the Poultry Industry
By H. David Chapman, Center of Excellence for Poultry Science at the University of Arkansas's Avian Advice - Coccidiosis is a parasite infection of chickens that in the past caused catastrophic losses to the developing poultry industry in the United...

Chickens, Trees and Farmers - an Experiment in Mutual Benefit
By Marian Stamp Dawkins, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford - Unlike adult laying hens, broiler or meat chickens are juveniles and most of them are killed when they are less than six weeks old. People like to see them ranging outside and enjoying...

Newcastle Disease 2005: Lessons To Be Learned
By Defra - On 15 July 2005 the UK confirmed an outbreak of Newcastle Disease (ND) in pheasants at a game establishment in Surrey. Disease was confirmed on a single holding containing an estimated 11,700 pheasants, aged around 8-9 weeks. There was no...

Manifestations of Clostridium perfringens and related bacterial enteritides in broiler chickens
By J. Wilson, University of Guelph; G. Tice, Elanco Animal Health; M. L. Brash, Elanco, Division Eli Lilly Canada Inc., and S. St. Hilaire, Idaho State University and published by Lohmann animal Health - Well known as the cause of necrotic enteritis,...

The Effect of Feather Eating on Feed Passage in Laying Hens
By A. Harlander-Matauschek, H. P. Piepho, and W. Bessei - This article contains an abstract from the Poultry Science Association's January 2006 journal.

Improving Animal Welfare: EU Action Plan
By the European Commission - Concrete measures to improve the protection and welfare of animals over the next five years are outlined in a new Action Plan on the protection and welfare of animals, adopted by the Commission today. The Action Plan aims...

Litter Quality and Broiler Performance
By Casey W. Ritz, Brian D. Fairchild, and Michael P. Lacy Extension Poultry Scientists, University of Georgia - This article provides an in depth look into how litter conditions significantly influence broiler performance, and ultimately the profits of...

Understanding and Controlling Ascites
By Frank T. Jones and published by the University of Arkansas's Avian Advice - The ascites has been observed worldwide in fast growing broilers reared under a wide variety of conditions. Ascites is initiated by factors that elevate the blood pressure...