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Automated assessment of broiler chicken welfare poses particular problems due to the large numbers of birds involved and the variety of different welfare measures that have been proposed. Active (sustained, defect-free) walking is both a universally agreed measure of...
Source: US Poultry & Egg Association Institution: Auburn University Principal Investigator: Jessica D. Starkey, Ph.D. Auburn University Department of Poultry Science 201 Poultry Science Building Auburn, AL 36849 Multi-stage egg incubation systems are challenging to manage and attempts to keep late-stage embryos from overheating create situations...
Broiler egg sets and placements continue to trend below a year ago as the industry responds to declining demand expectations while improving prices. The USDA says 230.167 million broiler type eggs were set into incubators last week, nearly 4 million...
In the United States, Salmonella remains a pervasive threat as the leading cause of foodborne illnesses. Recent data from the Center for Disease Control (CDC) underscores the significant role played by poultry products in foodborne outbreaks, surpassing other food...
Mitigating heat stress in poultry production is a challenge. Tunnel ventilation with evaporative cooling has been used for many years to improve thermal comfort and production efficiency. Increasing ventilation rate (cfm) generally increases air speed (ft/min) and the “wind...
A Western College of Veterinary Medicine (WCVM) veterinary pathologist wants “to get the poop” on developing new biomarker-based diagnostic tests for broiler chickens by running laboratory tests with their feces. Dr. Susantha Gomis (BVSc, PhD), professor and head of the...
Institution: North Carolina State University Principal Investigator: Ravi Kulkarni North Carolina State University Population Health and Pathobiology College of Veterinary Medicine 1060 William Moore Drive Raleigh, NC 27607 In this age of 'no antibiotic ever' farming, the re-emerging Necrotic enteritis (NE) disease caused by Clostridium perfringens...
Introduction Mississippi has about 1,450 poultry farms producing 762 million broilers per year that are processed and shipped locally, across the country, and around the world. Poultry has been leading the state as the largest agricultural commodity for 20 straight...
Source: PoultryHealthToday.com Acidified drinking water did not impair the efficacy of a live Salmonella Typhimurium (ST) vaccine in broilers challenged with Salmonella Heidelberg, according to Manuel Da Costa, DVM, PhD, associate director, outcomes research, Zoetis. Vaccinating broilers with a live ST...
Source: PoultryHealthToday.com Inclusion body hepatitis (IBH) infections may not offer clear-cut clinical symptoms, but there are on-farm diagnostic measures that can yield early warnings. The good news is it’s fairly easy to train production personnel to recognize suspect IBH cases...
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