The egg industry is currently going through its fair share of challenges. With production outstripping consumption and prices being squeezed, producers are looking for more ways to improve the efficiency of their businesses.
To try to achieve this, many are...
Pullets: Alternative Methods to Delay Onset of Lay - The commercial table egg industry has access to genetic strains of laying hens that mature early and will produce eggs efficiently with a long persistence of lay. The table egg industry...
Healthy chicken treats can be fed in moderation along with a complete chicken feed. Be sure to follow the 90/10 rule – offer 90% complete feed to a maximum of 10% treats each day.
Rhubarbs or roses? Which is a...
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INTRODUCTION
Feed particle size is an often-overlooked aspect of poultry production. Producers should not assume that feed is of a uniform size and homogeneously mixed, or that the feed mill is providing the ideal mix of particles...
Ensuring best practices when it comes to hen health and welfare is at the heart of what Canadian egg farmers do. To inform continuous improvements in animal welfare practices, Egg Farmers of Canada calls on Dr. Tina Widowski, Research...
Institution: Purdue
Principal Investigator:
Darrin M. Karcher, PhD
Assistant Professor, Extension Poultry Scientist
Purdue University
3034 Creighton Hall of Animal Sciences
270 South Russell Street
West Lafayette, IN 47907
Research has shown that Salmonella persistence and transmission in poultry flocks can be influenced by various housing facility...
