Of the largest egg-producing companies in Latin America, 50% are located in Brazil, accounting for just over 10% of all global production. In 2021, of the 55.5 billion eggs produced, 99.54% were destined for domestic consumption, demonstrating a significant...
A recent study reveals that it may be feasible to reduce the dietary amino acid intake for pullets, potentially lowering costs and improving sustainability in poultry farming. This research is especially significant as modern pullets are bred to mature...
Nutritional content of egg can be manipulated by altering hen feed. Developing an economical fowl feed supplement to produce omega-3 enriched egg from purified fish oil, produced using a proprietary method, leads to a value-added product. The objective of...
The two bird flu vaccines currently being tested in a field study have been found to protect laying hens from the disease eight weeks after vaccination. This was shown in a transmission study conducted by Wageningen Bioveterinary Research (WBVR,...
In 2020, UConn researcher Kumar Venkitanarayanan, associate dean of research and graduate education in the College of Agriculture, Health and Natural Resources, received a $10 million award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture...
With a newly discovered poultry pathogen named in his honor, Billy Hargis has a permanent place in the annals of science. And now, the pathogen has a permanent place on Hargis.
Eimeria hargisi is a parasite discovered by the Ontario Veterinary...
A University of Saskatchewan (USask) research team has created an aerosol vaccine that protects poultry from necrotic enteritis, a bacterial disease caused by Clostridium perfringens type G. This disease leads to a 50% fatality rate among affected chickens and...
USPOULTRY and the USPOULTRY Foundation announce the completion of a funded research project by researchers at the University of Georgia that evaluated increased dark periods after placement of chicks. The research was made possible in part by an endowing...
Cage-free (CF) housing systems are expected to be the dominant egg production system in North America and European Union countries by 2030. Within these systems, bumblefoot (a common bacterial infection and chronic inflammatory reaction) is mostly observed in hens...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture (USDA’s NIFA) has awarded $611,000 to University at Albany researchers to develop a rapid, portable, colorimetric Salmonella detection kit for food products. If successfully created, the test will...
