Stage 1 – First Three Weeks in March 2020: Sharp Increase in Volumes
Canada started to implement social distancing at the national level from mid-March 2020. In the first week’s lockdown from March 15th, 2020 to March 21st, 2020, the...
Many factors can influence egg quality and appearance. These factors will vary depending upon the housing environment, genetics, drugs, feed ingredients, or chemicals used in agriculture. As egg production methods become more varied—for example, changing from cage to free...
Management and disposal of poultry litter are two of the greatest challenges that poultry producers face. Improper litter management can result in serious flock health and welfare issues and can lead to odors, fly breeding, and excess nutrients in...
Everything starts at day one with our hens. To obtain and maintain high levels of fertility there are key aspects that we recommend from the start.
How we brood our hens will either have negative or positive effects on the...
Mile Four is a new eCommerce store shipping fresh, organic whole grain chicken feed nationwide. Offering subscription and one-time sales, the company is targeting the growing backyard chicken market.
"We want to make raising backyard chickens as simple as possible...
A written plan to respond to disease outbreaks for your livestock operation is like insurance. You hope you never need it. You may never need it. But if there is an outbreak, the economic survival of your livestock operation...
Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig announced today that the Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship is continuing the Iowa Disposal Assistance Program (IDAP) to support Iowa farmers. Pork and egg producers forced to euthanize and dispose of...
Table of Contents
Introduction
Diet Energy Level
Male vs. Female Birds
Bird Age
Environmental Temperature
Bird Health
Other Measures of Feed Accuracy
Summary
Introduction
Together with growth rate, days to market and mortality, feed efficiency has been considered as one of...
PoultryBooks Pro® contains many features that have been used and tested extensively by pork producers using Decision Power’s pork production software, SwineBooks Pro®. These features include the ability to import data from on-farm feed mills. An inventory-management component in...
New Standard Group recently had the opportunity to install a new barn automation system for Millbrook Farms. FUSION Building Automation System by ControlTech is the latest in barn automation technology. Easy to program and monitor this system has been...
