Effect of Pellet Quality and Manufacturing Method on Fat Distribution in a Commercial Feed System.
In the poultry industry, flock uniformity is critical and the way and amount of feed that is distributed along a feed line could impact on the performance of the flock and the uniformity of the growth rates, writes ThePoultrySite Senior Editor, Chris...

Role of Feed Mill Laboratory Towards Improving Feed Quality
The goal of feed manufacturing is to produce feed that meets intended specifications in nutritional composition. writes Sunil Chauhan, a post graduate in chemistry working with Avitech Animal Health Pvt. Ltd as a lab technical officer.

Re-Invention for Feed Formulation
By Jane Jordan, ThePigSite Editor. Livestock producers are struggling within the green revolution, but help may be at hand through biotechnology and nutrigenomics. Feed formulation needs an overhaul now that traditional ingredients are becoming scarce,...

Significance of Phytase as a Dietary Supplement
By Chris Harris Senior Editor ThePoultrySite. The significance of phytase as a supplement to the diet of both broiler chicken and laying hens was one of the central themes in presentations to the recent International Poultry Scientific Forum in Atlanta,...

Research into Distiller's Dried Grains in Poultry Feed
By Chris Harris, Senior Editor of ThePoultrySite. Adding distiller’s dried grains as a supplement to poultry feed can improve performance. Three research papers outlining how the supplement could be used in different aspects of the poultry industry were...

Yeast Beta Glucans and Broiler Chicken Growth
From the Atlantic Poultry Research Institute by B. Rathgeber, Agricultural and Agri-Food Canada, Kentville, NS, K. Budgell, Nova Scotia Agricultural College, Truro, NS, J. MacIsaac, Atlantic Poultry Research Institute, Truro, NS M.Mirza, Institute...

Feed Costs Affecting the Poultry Market
This feature is taken from the Avec Annual Report for 2007. A link to the full report is also provided. No poultry producers can say that they are not affected by the growing costs of energy and/or animal feed.

Optimizing the Performance of Early Nutrient Restricted Offspring From Young Broiler Breeders
By David Peebles, PhD Professor, Poultry Science, Mississippi State University, published in MSU Poultry Dept. Newsletter Vol. 1 Issue 3. The poor quality and excessive mortality of chicks during the first 7 days of brooding are frequently associated...

Nipple Drinkers for Brooding Turkeys
By Jesse L. Grimes, Department of Poultry Science, NC State University; Summer Russell, Prestage Farms, Inc and published in the North Carolina Poultry Industry Joint Area Newsletter - Fall 2007. The use of nipple drinkers for rearing broilers has become...

DDGS: What lies ahead?
By Alex Corzo, PhD, Assistant Professor, Poultry Science, Mississippi State University. Published in the Poultry Science Department Newsletter, summer 2007. DDGS, which stands for Distillers Dried Grains with Solubles, is a by-product from the fermentation...

Biofuels and Poultry Production
By Nicholas M. Dale, Extension Poultry Scientist, the University of Georgia, Cooperative Extension Service. The generation of biofuels using current technology (ethanol from the fermentation of corn, biodiesel from fats and oils) is viewed as a means...

Mechanisms Regulating Feed Intake, Energy Expenditure, and Body Weight in Poultry
By M. P. Richards (Corresponding author) and M. Proszkowiec-Weglarz USDA, ARS, Growth Biology Laboratory. Published in Poultry Science, Volume 86, Issue 7, July 2007 edition.

The Effect of Low-Density Diets on Broiler Breeder Development and Nutrient Digestibility During the Rearing Period
By H. Enting, A. Veldman, Schothorst Feed Research, M. W. A. Verstegen, Wageningen University and corresponding author P. J. van der Aar. Published in Poultry Science, Volume 86, Issue 4, April 2007 edition.

Effect of Dietary Salmon Protein Concentrate on Growth Performance of Broiler Chickens
By Cole Wagner, Graduate Research Assistant; Kristjan Bregendahl, Assistant Professor of Poultry Nutrition and published in the Animal Industry Report 2007, by the Department of Animal Science, Iowa State University

Growth Promoting Antibiotics in Food Animal Production: An Economic Analysis.
By Jay P. Graham, MBA, Ellen Silbergeld, PhD, from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and John J. Boland from The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore,, PhD. This article was published in the January-February issue of Public Health Repo...