When broiler chickens are busy fighting the parasitic infection coccidiosis, they can't absorb nutrients efficiently or put energy toward growth. With consumer sentiment pitted against antimicrobials ...
On a September afternoon, Georgie Cartanza walked inside one of her chicken houses to check on tens of thousands of chicks. The chicks, just three days old, were smaller and lighter than a tennis ball ...
The inclusion of a high-flavonoid corn, developed by a Penn State maize geneticist, in the diet of broiler chickens reduced the incidence and severity of a fatal intestinal disorder known as necrotic ...
New instances of Newcastle disease infections have been recently been reported in the countries of Spain, Israel and Poland.
Please note: The University of Delaware in consultation with the U.S. Department of Agriculture has decided to postpone the Emergency Poultry Disease Response and the Poultry Disease Outbreak ...
Pakistan's poultry sector, now the second largest industry after textiles, is facing disease-related economic losses worth billions of rupees, prompting experts to call for stronger collaboration ...
Recent cases of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) in some of our northern-most Indiana counties have been devastating to poultry farms. Avian Influenza can affect both commercial and backyard ...
In my more than 10 years as a vet, disease management is one of the biggest headaches that poultry farmers deal with. Depending on the disease, the common remedy for most is the conventional poultry ...
Some of the chicken reared by Naftal Mocha, a rabbit and poultry farmer in Mwiki, Nairobi, on Friday, July 24 2020. [David Njaaga,Standard] The environment in which our farmers operate is constantly ...