FAWC Report On Farm Welfare: Recent Developments On Labelling Within The EU
By the Farm Animal Welfare Council - This article is part of a report on labelling in relation to the welfare provenance of livestock products. This Report concentrates on the purpose and nature of labelling and its justification, whether such labelling...

FAWC Report On Farm Welfare: Effectiveness Of Labelling
By the Farm Animal Welfare Council - This article is part of a report on labelling in relation to the welfare provenance of livestock products. This Report concentrates on the purpose and nature of labelling and its justification, whether such labelling...

FAWC Report On Farm Welfare: Benefits Of Welfare Labelling
By the Farm Animal Welfare Council - This article is part of a report on labelling in relation to the welfare provenance of livestock products. This Report concentrates on the purpose and nature of labelling and its justification, whether such labelling...

FAWC Report On Farm Welfare: Practicalities of Labelling
By the Farm Animal Welfare Council - This article is part of a report on labelling in relation to the welfare provenance of livestock products. This Report concentrates on the purpose and nature of labelling and its justification, whether such labelling...

FAWC Report On Farm Welfare: The Way Forward
By the Farm Animal Welfare Council - This article is part of a report on labelling in relation to the welfare provenance of livestock products. This Report concentrates on the purpose and nature of labelling and its justification, whether such labelling...

FAWC Report On Farm Welfare: Examples Of Existing Labelling Schemes
By the Farm Animal Welfare Council - This article is part of a report on labelling in relation to the welfare provenance of livestock products. This Report concentrates on the purpose and nature of labelling and its justification, whether such labelling...

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...

Colibacillosis: The imbalance between chicken and bacterium
By Hybro veterinary department - The bacterium Escherichia Coli is present in the gut of every chicken but also in the gut of mammals including humans. The bacterium forms part of the normal intestinal flora that is necessary for the normal functioning...

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...