Controlling Late Egg Size
By Emma Fleming, Technical Development Manager, Aviagen - As a laying flock ages, egg weight increases due to bodyweight gain and reducing egg production after peak. Increased breeder egg weight over the course of the lifetime of a flock will have significant...

Evaluation of the Effect on Broiler Chickens Sprayed and Fogged with Virkon S
By S.E. Cheng, D.V.M., PhD., K.M. Kilgore, B.S., P.C. Gerber, A.A.S., T.A. Sheets from A. H. Robins Research Farm - A 17-day, floor-pen study was conducted to evaluate the effect on broiler chicks when Virkon S was sprayed on the floor and wall before...

Getting Started with the Home Poultry Flock
By Dr. Mickey A. Latour and Dr. Todd J. Applegate, Department of Animal Sciences, University of Purdue - The desire to begin raising poultry must be carefully considered before the first purchase. As the husbandry person, you will need to become acquainted...

Guidelines for Prospective Contract Hatching Egg Producers
By Dan L. Cunningham, Poultry Science Department, The University of Georgia - Georgia ranks as the top broiler producing state in the United States, raising more than 7 billion pounds of chicken meat annually. The state's broiler industry has experienced...

Nutritional Value of Corn and Wheat Distiller's Dried Grain
By G. P. Widyaratne and R. T. Zijlstra and published by the Prairie Swine Center - DDGS is primarily a by-product from the cereal grain-based ethanol industry. With the growth of the ethanol industry, increasing quantities of DDGS are available for livestock...

Avoiding poultry leg, foot problems
By Charles Goan, University of Tennessee - Charles Goan, University of Tennessee poultry specialist, shares some management practices with us to help you avoid leg and foot problems with your large meat breed chickens and waterfowl.

Sequencing of the Chicken Genome: An Overview
By Hybro B.V. - Research papers published on 9 December 2004 in a special issue of the scientific journal Nature show that geneticists from around the world have assembled the entire chicken genome sequence. Following pioneering work on the human genome, inspired...

Incubation effects on chick quality
By Ron Meijerhof, Technical department, Hybro B.V. - The efficiency of hatcheries is often measured in terms of hatchability. The more chickens are produced from a batch of eggs, the more efficient and cost-effective the hatchery is, given a certain amount...

Abolition of battery cages in EU-25 : Cost estimated at €354 million
By the USDA, Foreign Agricultural Service - The EU ban on traditional cages for laying hens, which is scheduled for 2012, could cost European egg producers up to €354 million per year. An EC report calculates the cost of egg production indicating that...

USDA Poultry and Products Semi-Annual Reports 2005 link
By USDA, FAS - This article provides the poultry data from the USDA FAS Poultry and Products Semi-Annual 2005 reports. We have 3 new countries this week; EU-25, Brazil and Mexico. Within each article is a link to the full report which includes all the...

The Mycotoxin Challenge In Modern Feed Production
By Eva M. Binder, PhD, Biomin® Laboratory Singapore Pte. Ltd and published by eFeedLink - Mycotoxins are secondary metabolites produced by filamentous fungi that cause a toxic response (mycotoxicosis) when ingested by higher animals. Fusarium, Aspergillus,...

Distillers Dried Grains and Their Impact on Corn, Soymeal, and Livestock Markets
By Steve Markham, Senior Merchandiser, Commodity Specialists Company - In 2004 the Ethanol industry produced 3.41 billion gallons, more than twice as much as in 2000. There are 88 ethanol plants in production or under construction. Approximately 75% of...

Infectious Laryngotracheitis (ILT) - A Chink in the Armour of Biosecurity?
By DuPont Animal Health Solutions - In the 75 years since it was first identified, infectious laryngotracheitis (ILT) has proved to be a persistent cause of concern in poultry, especially commercial layers.

The use of vaccines for the control of Salmonella in poultry
By the European Food Safety Authority - This article provides the summary and a link to a paper by the EFSA Journal on the Opinion of the Scientific Panel on Biological Hazards on the requests from the European Commission related to the use of vaccines...

Avian Influenza in Poultry
In 1878 a respiratory disease causing high mortality in poultry was first described as Fowl Plague. In 1955 an influenza virus was isolated as the cause of Fowl Plague or avian influenza. This article provides a few fact about Avian Influenza and provides...