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 Welcome to the Poultryproducer.com Podcast. This is a fun series interviewing great guests in the Poultry Industry.  Today’s guest is Teryn Girard a highly regarded Poultry Veterinarian from Alberta Canada. Teryn has just joined Prairie Swine Health Services as...

Source: PoultryHealthToday.com Each day, Tyson Loewen rises at 5 am and heads to the four chicken houses on his Guntersville, Alabama, farm. For the next 5 hours he studies his flock of 180,000 birds. He looks for disease symptoms, assesses...

Poulvac Maternavac® 4 protects against IBD, reovirus, Newcastle, IBV Poulvac Maternavac® 4, an inactivated vaccine from Zoetis that helps protect chickens against four important diseases, has been licensed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and will begin shipping this fall,...

LED lamps have changed the landscape for poultry growers in terms of energy savings related to poultry house lighting. No other lighting source (incandescent, compact fluorescent, cold cathode, high pressure sodium, etc.) comes close to the energy efficiency of...

Many people ask us: what exactly makes enriched hen housing, “enriched”?  It is, in a sense, like seating on an airplane. If conventional housing is economy class then enriched housing is business class—more amenities, more space, more comfort. In...

"The type of partnership we've been dreaming of..." Steve Walcott, Vice President of Egg Production Sales for Big Dutchman North America, recently announced the addition of J. Dean Williamson Ltd. as a new authorized layer equipment dealer for Canada. J. Dean...

The pursuit of higher welfare standards in chicken production has become a significant focus for the poultry industry, driven by consumer demand for ethically produced meat and eggs. Achieving these standards, however, presents various challenges, including maintaining animal health,...

Energy expenditure is the second highest expense for the contract poultry producers after the house mortgages, and is continuously on the rise. Energy related retrofits on a broiler farm can be expensive, and poultry growers need help in the...

TBG, a global leader in poultry equipment and hatchery solutions announced last week that it will combine the operations of its Jamesway and Chick Master businesses. The move, to be completed by March of 2021, will establish a new combined...

Arcadia processing plant and hatchery will also receive upgrades House of Raeford Farms announced that construction would begin this summer on a new feed mill for the Arcadia, Louisiana complex. The facility, to be located in Simsboro, Louisiana and Lincoln Parish,...