Poultry Industry News: Sweden
Thursday, May 16, 2013
House Environment Focus at Annual Aviagen SweChick SeminarSWEDEN - Aviagen SweChick recently held its annual customer seminar, attended by representatives of the company’s customer base across Sweden, Norway, Iceland and Denmark....
Thursday, April 25, 2013
Layer Hybrids React Differently to Fibre Source SWEDEN - Layers in enriched cages frequently pecked at straw pellets provided with the feed or in letter bath, report researchers based in Uppsala but the two hybrid lines studied behaved differently in their pecking behaviour and in terms of eggshell...
Wednesday, March 27, 2013
Continuous Investments in Petersime Incubators by LantmännenSWEDEN - Lantmännen Swehatch, part of one of the Nordic area’s largest groups within food, energy, machinery and agriculture, has recently replaced six incubators in its hatchery in Väderstad with Petersime BioStreamer™ incubators. At the same time,...
Tuesday, August 21, 2012
HKScan to Increase Efficiency in SwedenSWEDEN - As part of the extensive development programme launched in the spring extending until the end of 2013, Finnish meat processor HKScan will further enhance the group's business in Sweden....
Monday, June 18, 2012
WPSA Welfare Conference Set for June 2013SWEDEN - The ninth European Symposium on Poultry Welfare, co-organised by the Swedish Branch of the World’s Poultry Science Association (WPSA) will be held in Uppsala on 17 to 20 June 2013. ...
Thursday, December 15, 2011
Sweden Bracing for EU-Induced Egg BoomSWEDEN - A ban on barren cages for egg-laying poultry, which comes into effect in the New Year, could mean an egg boom for Sweden if the demand rises quicker than the European poultry farmers have time to adjust. ...
Wednesday, March 09, 2011
Chickens Reportedly 'Tortured' During SlaughterSWEDEN - The Swedish National Food Administration (Livsmedelsverket) has discovered that a number of chickens have not been bled, and thus suspects that they may have been scalded and plucked alive....
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Sweden Reports New ND OutbreakSWEDEN - There has been another outbreak of Newcastle disease (ND), in a different region from the one previously reported....
Monday, February 07, 2011
Sweden Reports Newcastle Disease OutbreakSWEDEN - There has been an outbreak of Newcastle disease on a farm in Gotland County. ...
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Climate Tax on Meat and Milk to Cut GHGSWEDEN - A climate tax corresponding to €60/ton CO2eq on meat and milk could reduce greenhouse gas emissions from European agriculture by around seven per cent. If the land made available is used for bioenergy production, the decrease in emissions can...
Monday, February 22, 2010
Study Finds Salmonella-Contaminated Feed IngredientsSWEDEN - Salmonella was isolated from 15 per cent of soybean meal consignments, 10 per cent of rapeseed meal samples and up to 13 per cent of finished feed from five feed mills, representing a significant source of these bacteria on pig farms. ...
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Source of Enterococcal Infection in Swedish BroilersSWEDEN - Researchers have studied environmental contamination by vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) on three broiler farms and found that even a low level of contamination means the infection of all birds over one production cycle....
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Sweden Reports Newcastle Disease OutbreakSWEDEN - The country's veterinary authorities have reported an outbreak of Newcastle Disease, also known as Paramyxovirus 1....
Friday, June 12, 2009
Human Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria Not from ChickensSWEDEN - Researchers have found that vancomycin-resistant enterococci in humans did not originate in chickens but possibly from sewage sludge spread on arable land. Sahlström from Evira in Finalnd and co-authors from Sweden's National Veterinary Institute...
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Swedish Chicken Industry Subject to Sabotage?SWEDEN - The largest producer of chicken products in Sweden, Kronfågel, has been hit by a severe food safety scare. Consumers have found pieces of glass in a wide variety of the company's chicken products. Glass is prohibited in all of its facilities,...
Tuesday, April 07, 2009
Salmonella Detection Methods in Feeds ComparedSWEDEN - Koyuncu and Haggblom at the National Veterinary Institute in Uppsala found that the accuracy, sensitivity and specificity of the three cultural methods they compared were similar although the the detection levels for different feed and feed ingredients...
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Methodology for Salmonella in Feed ComparedSWEDEN - Researchers in Uppsala compared cultural methods for the detection of Salmonella in feed and feed ingredients, and found their methods to be equally sensitive and specific, although the detection levels in different materials varied considerably....
Monday, February 09, 2009
Sweden Declared Newcastle-FreeSWEDEN - Sweden is now free of Newcastle disease, according to the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE)....
Monday, January 26, 2009
Free-Range Chickens May Be Less HealthySWEDEN - A free-range label doesn't guarantee your poultry had a worry-free existence, according to Swedish researchers. ...
Friday, January 16, 2009
Study: Hen Mortality Affected by Housing SystemSWEDEN - Free-range and barn-housed (litter-based) layers were more likely to have bacterial infections and parasites, and to suffer from cannibalism than birds kept in battery cages. These are the main conclusions of a recently published paper by Fossum...
Free-Range Chickens are More Prone to DiseaseSWEDEN - Chickens kept in litter-based housing systems, including free-range chickens, are more prone to disease than chickens kept in cages, according to a study published in BioMed Central's open access journal Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica....
Friday, December 12, 2008
Newcastle Disease in Sweden 'Resolved'SWEDEN - The authorities have reported to the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) that there have been no new outbreaks of Newcastle disease. ...
Friday, November 28, 2008
No Further Cases of ND in SwedenSWEDEN - There have been no further outbreaks of Newcastle disease (ND) since early November....
Friday, November 07, 2008
Continued Positive Results from LantmännenSWEDEN - The country's farmers' co-operative producing feed and food has posted good third-quarter results....
Wednesday, November 05, 2008
Newcastle Disease in SwedenSWEDEN - The veterinary authority has informed the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) about a new outbreak of Newcastle disease....









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