US Feed Outlook - July 2009
U.S. feed grain production in 2009 is expected to be up from 2008 because of increased acreage, says a report from the Economic Research Service, USDA.

World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates - July 2009
Total US meat production for 2009 is reduced as lower beef output more than offsets higher pork and poultry production, according to the World Agricultural Outlook Board World Agricultural Supply and Demand Report for July.

WPSA UK Meeting Focuses on Nutrition
In a final report from the World's Poultry Science Association (WPSA) UK Branch annual meeting earlier this year, ThePoultrySite Editor, Jackie Linden, summarises the presentations on nutrition.

Back to Basics: Revisiting Blood Collection
Brian Kiepper, extension poultry scientist at the University of Georgia, explains how and why it is vital to collect all blood - even at relatively small processing plants - in order to protect the environment in the University's Poultry Tips...

Brooding and Rearing Baby Chicks [Oregon SU; for archive]
Dr James Hermes of Oregon State University Extension Service gives a practical guide to brooding and rearing all types of poultry chicks to small-scale producers and hobby farmers in this Pacific Northwest Extension Publication from 1996.

Efficacy of Turkey Herpesvirus Vectored Infectious Bursal Disease Virus
A turkey herpesvirus vaccine expressing the VP2 protein of the Delaware variant E strain of infectious bursal disease virus was constructed, write M. Esaki of Zeon Corporation, Tokyo, Japan and Biomune Company, Lenexa, Kansas and K. Moore Dorsey and J....

UK Poultry and Poultrymeat Statistics - June 2009
By Defra. This monthly publication combines the UK Hatcheries Survey and Poultry Slaughterhouse Survey results together with other Defra statistics, and trade data.

Demand Trends in Today's Economy
In the wake of the international economic downturn, a new trend has emerged - 'Frugality chic'. The impacts for the egg industry were explored consumer analyst, Richard Lewis, at the International Egg Commission (IEC) London Meeting earlier this year....

Gutpower in poultry - innovation on the horizon
The main ingredients of Biotronic^® GutPower are butyric, caprylic and capric acids in the protected glycerides form. The beneficial form of protection guarantees gastric by-pass and slow release of acids in the intestine where all acids...

Embryonic Development, Day by Day
By Dr Stephan WARIN, DVM, Avian Business Unit. CEVA Santé Animale, La Ballastiere, BP 126, 33501 Libourne Cedex, France

Genetic Selection May Help Improve Walking Ability of Turkeys
Dr Edgar Oviedo-Rondón of North Carolina State University reviewed his work into the relationship between gait parameters and bone strength in turkeys at the 3rd Turkey Science and Production Conference earlier this year. Jackie Linden summarises his...

Chicken Embryo Malpositions and Deformities
Dr Gary D. Butcher and Dr Amir H. Nilipour of the University of Florida describe the categorisation and incidence of embryo malpositions and deformities in commercial poultry is not readily available. The article was published by Institute of Food and...

Common External Parasites in Poultry: Lice and Mites
How to distinguish between lice and mites in poultry, and methods of treatment by Carrie L. Pickworth (Ohio State University) and Teresa Y. Morishita (Ohio State University Extension). Ohio State University Extension Fact Sheet on Veterinary Preventive...

Selecting Breeds For Small Flocks
From the Cooperative Extension Service at West Virginia University's Center for Extension and Continuing Education. Advice on choosing the best breed for small flocks of chickens, ducks, geese and turkeys (publication date unknown).

Little Poultry Growth and Fewer Exports in 2009
The latest USDA forecasts show only small increases in poultry meat production and exports this year, writes Terry Evans for ThePoultrySite.