As the days start to get warmer, farm equipment across the province will begin hitting the roadways for planting season. Many farmers spend a lot of time on the road throughout the spring, travelling long distances between fields and...
Reprinted from:PoultryHealthToday.com
High-profile Salmonella outbreaks in turkey flocks in recent years have demonstrated the need for improved surveillance in the US turkey industry, according to a poultry health expert.
Nikki Shariat, PhD, assistant professor in the Department of Population Health, Poultry...
An interview with John Brown, DVM, senior technical services veterinarian and layer specialist, Zoetis
Q: In 2021, Zoetis introduced Poulvac® Procerta™ HVT-IBD, a recombinant vector vaccine that protects against infectious bursal disease viruses (IBDV) and Marek’s disease. How will the...
A genetic technique which could help improve predictions about the virulence of infectious bursal disease (IBDV) has identified pathogenicity in seven new strains of the virus which causes an immunosuppressive condition.
Isolates were collected from broiler and pullet flocks showing...
Sharing and analyzing data at farm level and beyond can offer new insights that improve bird health and profitability on layer farms, according to a poultry industry expert.
Ian Rubinoff, DVM, director of global technical services for Hy-Line International, said...
COVID-19 infection and hospitalization rates are falling nationwide, but experts talk in dire terms about what will happen if variants of the virus are allowed to continue to surge this spring. There is a continual threat of emerging coronavirus...
Source: PoultrySouthBlog
One of the questions we get the most is “How much is the down payment?” That’s a valid question that we can’t give you a proof-positive answer to most of the time. It’s absolutely something that you need...
Novel, science-based technologies will allow the poultry industry to get ahead of issues coming towards it, Denise Heard, DVM, director of research programs for the US Poultry & Egg Association (USPOULTRY) told Poultry Health Today.
To encourage those new technologies,...
Most people in live poultry production haven’t spent a lot of time reading about histopathology. Still, veterinarians who specialize in diagnosing disease in animal tissues are spending more time in processing plants helping to minimize costly carcass condemnations while...
More than 60 years of research and experience have made it clear that infectious bursal disease in broilers is here to stay, and that unless it’s managed, considerable losses can occur.
Vaccines are the best tool we have to combat...