Since the end of 2019, there have been reports of avian influenza in several European countries, including Hungary, Poland, and Romania. The virus detected in these outbreaks is a highly pathogenic form of the H5 influenza virus. According to...
More than a century ago most of our nation’s inhabitants were farmers and most farmers owned chickens. Our country has changed in many ways since those early years. Today a very small minority are farmers, few of whom own...
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Date:
2020
Volume:
32
Number:
2
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Cold weather management
Heating systems
The house has been preheated for 36 hours to 92oF. The chicks will be arriving in a few hours and the controller’s six temperature sensors (positioned one foot above the floor) indicate the...
Shown dedicating the Robert T. Hamilton Poultry Teaching and Research Farm, from left to right: Kevin Stiles, executive director, Iowa Egg Council; Todd Carlson, vice president of finance and operations, Henning Holdings; Daniel J. Robison, Endowed Dean's Chair, College...
Footpad dermatitis is a common issue in poultry production with average prevalence rates often hovering around 20%, but sometimes reaching as high as 100% on some poultry operations.
Footpad dermatitis is characterized as the loss of integrity in the skin...
Mycotoxins are estimated to affect 25 percent of the world’s crops and can cost an estimated at $466 million USD, while production losses tied to mycotoxins approach $6 million USD annually (CAST, 2003). When mycotoxins are present in poultry...
China has approved the import of all poultry products from the United States, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs said on its website on Monday, including breeding birds in addition to poultry meat approved late last year.
Beijing had...
The Georgia Tech Research Institute’s Agricultural Technology Research Program (ATRP) blends the use of technology and innovation to fuel advancements in agriculture. The program occupies the frontier of technology solutions, including advanced sensing, robotics, automation, and environmental and food...
Perdue Farms Becomes Founding Member of Penn State Smeal Center for the Business of Sustainability to Accelerate Sustainability in Business
The United Nations predicts that the world’s population will increase by 2 billion people in the next 30 years, which will...
Some poultry farmers in the province at the heart of China's coronavirus outbreak are having to euthanise young birds amid new rules designed to contain the disease that have paralysed live animal transport, feed supply and slaughterhouses. Some farmers...
Poultry News
US reports first fatal H5N1 infection as avian flu strikes more...
The Louisiana Department of Health (LDH) today announced that a patient previously hospitalized with a severe H5N1 avian flu infection has died.
The patient is...
