A new federal grant will support an Iowa State University-led effort to spur development of a “genome to phenome” infrastructure for scientific collaboration across crops and livestock.
The three-year, $960,000 project will provide guidance and lay the groundwork for a...
The 2020 summer internship program for Cobb wrapped up this month, but the knowledge, memories, and experiences that have been shared will live on for years to come. While this year’s program may have looked different than years past,...
Global poultry breeding company Aviagen® is committed to helping its customers, the world’s poultry producers, provide their growing communities with healthy, sustainable chicken meat. In an ongoing endeavor to strengthen the ability to ship poultry breeding chicks to these...
Broilers in the U.S. are raised in houses with earthen floors on litter material (often reused multiple times) composed of an initial bedding material (pine shavings, rice hulls, peanut hulls, etc.) mixed with feathers, spilled feed, water, and manure....
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) today announced that it is modernizing egg products inspection methods for the first time since Congress passed the Egg Products Inspection Act (EPIA) in 1970. The Egg...
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An excellent idea for a science project is to build an inexpensive incubator. The incubator may be used for hatching eggs from a back yard flock, or a fun learning project. Following are plans for the...
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Tip 15
Most modern single-stage setters and hatchers are fitted with carbon dioxide (CO2) sensors, automating adjustment of the machine dampers according to the CO2 accumulated from the developing embryos.
As the broiler breeder industry and genetics have evolved, there has been considerable change in equipment. Over time, we have seen a large percentage of the production houses change from hand-gathered nesting systems to mechanical nests. The mechanical nests...
The International Poultry Council is proud to announce a partnership with Urner Barry’s new online event; The Executive Conference and Global Protein Summit.
Through a combination of live discussions and on-demand presentations, the event will feature industry experts discussing the...
Now with fewer cockroaches: Foster Farms chicken! Foster Farms will reopen its Livingston, California plant on Saturday, three days after USDA inspectors saw a cockroach inside the facility and immediately closed it for sanitation and treatment. “We want to...