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Tuesday, January 18, 2011
Soil Association Opposes GM Chickens
UK - The Soil Association says that genetically modified (GM) chickens 'potentially pose a greater threat to human health' and 'an attempted cover up for flawed farming' ...
Monday, January 17, 2011
Society Must Decide on GM Technology, Says BPC
UK - The British Poultry Council (BPC) has commented on the genetic modification (GM) of farmed animals to improve diseases resistance, highlighting a number of potential advantages of the development but it adds that society will have to decide whether...
Dreyer Joins Hy-Line
US - Hy-Line International is pleased to announce the appointment of Jerry Dreyer as International Marketing Manager. ...
Friday, January 14, 2011
Edinburgh Study Offers Hope for Tackling Bird Flu
UK - Bird flu epidemics could be prevented by a new strain of chickens that do not spread avian flu to other birds. ...
Friday, December 31, 2010
Cobb Europe Hosts Turkish Industry
TURKEY - Cobb Europe hosted the Turkish industry earlier this month in Istanbul. ...
Further Investment for Aviagen in Europe
FRANCE - The company establishes Aviagen France SAS to supply the French market. ...
Thursday, December 30, 2010
Indian River Assoc Talks Performance in Taiwan
TAIWAN - Aviagen recently held the second Indian River Technical Association Meeting (IRTA), attracting attendees from 10 different countries across Asia. ...
Friday, December 24, 2010
New Cobb Laboratory Facilitates Further Growth
US - The new Cobb biotechnology laboratory doubling the capacity of work on health diagnostics and animal genetics has been opened at the worldwide headquarters at Siloam Springs, Arkansas....
Thursday, December 23, 2010
Fearfulness Not Correlated with Feather Pecking
NETHERLANDS & DENMARK - In a collaborative project between the Animal Breeding and Genomics Centre of the Netherlands, ADP and Denmark's Aarhus University, Bas Rodenburg and colleagues studied whether divergent selection on high and low feather pecking...
Health & Nutrition from Siberia to St Petersburg
RUSSIA - Aviagen's Russian customer support team recently went on the road with a series of veterinary and nutritional seminars. ...
Wednesday, December 22, 2010
Fifth Cobb Pedigree Complex Goes Ahead in US
US - Cobb is to invest $19 million in developing a new pedigree breeding complex in Tennessee. ...
Wageningen Compares Turkey, Chicken Genomes
NETHERLANDS - In the Animal Breeding & Genomics newsletter, researchers from Wageningen University report their work to develop a SNP-based linkage map in turkey and to detect genomic rearrangements between the turkey and chicken. ...
Monday, December 20, 2010
Grimaud Held 2nd Asia Seminar in Viet Nam
VIET NAM - Grimaud held a second successful Asia Seminar near Ho Chi Minh City earlier this month. ...
Aviagen SweChick on the Road in Scandinavia
SCANDINAVIA - Aviagen SweChick, Aviagen's Swedish business unit, recently held a series of broiler roadshows for customers in Denmark, Norway and Sweden. Overall, the events were attended by over 130 representatives from all parts of the Scandinavian...
Friday, December 17, 2010
French Group Visits Cobb in US
US - The potential of the Cobb700 broiler for further processed products was the focus of the French Group Glon's visit to the Cobb world headquarters in Arkansas. ...
Aarhus Wins Prize for Genetic Pre-Medication Tests
DENMARK - Researchers at Aarhus University have won a prize for their innovative research in developing genetic tests to predict an individual animal's response to medication. ...
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Aviagen Inc Hosts Canadian Young Farmer
US - Aviagen, Inc. has recently hosted Laurens Van Der Rijt of Lilydale, the recipient of the Canadian Broiler Hatching Egg Producers Association's (CBHEPA) Young Farmers Program, to the company's facilities in Alabama. ...
Friday, December 10, 2010
Welcome for Lab Trainees on Winter Course
UK - Aviagen recently welcomed a new group of customers to its laboratory facility in Scotland to participate in best practice training. ...
Wednesday, December 08, 2010
Aviagen, Moy Park Celebrate 50-Year Partnership
UK - Aviagen and Moy Park are this month celebrating one of the longest and most productive partnerships in the poultry industry having worked together for 50 years. Moy Park has successfully used Ross products over this period. ...
Gene Mapping Helps Solve Egg Quality Problems
FINLAND - An MTT researcher says gene mapping is helping to cut blood and meat spots, watery albumen and fishy taints in eggs. ...
Wednesday, December 01, 2010
Eurotier Show 2010 ‘Far Exceeded Cobb Expectations’
GERMANY - The Eurotier 2010 show exceeded all expectations of the event, according to Euan Meldrum, marketing manager of Cobb Europe, whose joint exhibit with Cobb Germany attracted more than 1000 visitors during the event....
Wednesday, November 24, 2010
Arbor Acres Grand Parents Now in Algeria
ALGERIA - Aviagen is pleased to announce that parent stock (PS) customers in Algeria will now be able to source Arbor Acres stock directly from Algeria following the establishment of Arbor Acres Algérie, a grand parent (GP) distributor owned by the Kerbouche...
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
Selection of Dam Line Improves Turkey Meat Quality
US - When it comes to meat quality, not all turkey breasts are created equal. Recent work by poultry scientists at Ohio State University has shown that a number of factors impact turkey breast meat quality and that genetic selection plays an important...
Greek Seminar Rewards Top Cobb Flock
GREECE - More than 130 people working in the poultry breeding sector in Greece and Cyprus took part in a seminar organised by Anitec in cooperation with Cobb Germany at the Hotel Du Lac at Ioannina....
Thursday, November 18, 2010
Sun Rises for Ross Asian Association
JAPAN - The 7th Ross Asian Association (RAA) Meeting recently took place in Kyoto, one of the oldest and most historical cities in Japan. ...
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