Poultry health

More animal welfare and fewer resources: Are these aspects compatible in poultry farming? This question can be answered with precision livestock farming. It is a mix of big data, networked technologies, and a holistic un…

Outbreaks of Newcastle disease has left poultry farmers in Kiambu county fearing for their livelihoods as hundreds of thousands of birds die.

The Business Benchmark on Farm Animal Welfare (BBFAW), a globally recognised investor framework for assessing companies' performance on farm animal welfare, has released its annual report for 2020.

Presentations at the South West Chicken Association online conference on 30 March are set to include insight into Defra's new policies for UK poultry and sustainable agriculture.

We are all feeling a bit cooped up these days. Make the most of it by getting your ticket to the premier poultry event in Canada, coming to you in a virtual format this year on 7 and 8 April.

Niel Baxter, a researcher with Elanco Animal Health, explains how changing the microbiome of animals can improve their performance.

As part of a wider strategy to standardise health treatments for farm animals and improve health outcomes, the World Veterinary Association (WVA) and animal welfare charity Brooke will collaborate to create a global list of essential veterinary medicines.…

Registration for the virtual 2021 Latin American Poultry Summit is now open.

US Poultry and Egg Association and the US Poultry Foundation have awarded scientists $350,000 in grants through the comprehensive research programme.

In this article the impact of soy oligosaccharides and the antigen beta-conglycinin on the productive performance and intestinal health of broiler chickens is reviewed.

US Poultry and the US Poultry Foundation have funded a research project at Mississippi State University that investigates broiler response when fed phytase enzymes.

US Poultry and the US Poultry Foundation have funded a research project at the University of Georgia that explores new methods for vaccinating poultry against infectious bronchitis viruses.

Introduction As global animal production has rapidly shifted towards antibiotic free, “Gut health” has become a popular expression and all-encompassing concept in the scientific community. Pluske et al. (2018) defined gu…

Gumboro virus immune complex vaccines were developed in the late 1990s with the aim of having a biological product that could be administered in a hatchery and that was capable of providing protection, regardless of the …

The poultry industry’s gradual switch to cage-free egg production has underscored the need to rethink disease-control programs and address health and welfare challenges unique to layers in these production systems, accor…

More than 200 US retailers have agreed to switch to free-range egg production by 2025.

Eimeria tenella is by far the most widely detected species on farms when routine lesion scoring is performed. However, it is well known that Eimeria infections very seldom occur with one single species of Eimeria, most o…

Most chicken doctors refer to the Diseases of Poultry as the “bible of poultry disease,” but even this revered source of knowledge may be incomplete and can’t replace networking with colleagues. Just one such example is …

Infectious bronchitis virus (IBV) has affected flocks before the virus was even identified. In the US, IBV strains are named for the state from which they were first isolated. There are strains named after Massachusetts,…

Seven species of Eimeria (E. acervulina, E. brunetti, E. maxima, E. mitis, E. necatrix, E. praecox and E. tenella) are recognized to be causative agents of coccidiosis in chickens of the genus Gallus gallus. Until recent…