Rodents carry diseases which can contaminate a poultry flock; however, preventing rodents on a farm can be difficult due to plentiful food sources and nesting sites. Farm design, ensuring the house exterior is free from vegetation and debris, properly storing feed and litter… Read more
Rodents carry diseases which can contaminate a poultry flock; however, preventing rodents on a farm can be difficult due to plentiful food sources and nesting sites. Farm design, ensuring the house exterior is free from vegetation and debris, properly storing feed and litter… Read more
Rodents carry diseases which can contaminate a poultry flock; however, preventing rodents on a farm can be difficult due to plentiful food sources and nesting sites. Farm design, ensuring the house exterior is free from vegetation and debris, properly storing feed and litter… Read more
Rodents carry diseases which can contaminate a poultry flock; however, preventing rodents on a farm can be difficult due to plentiful food sources and nesting sites. Farm design, ensuring the house exterior is free from vegetation and debris, properly storing feed and litter… Read more
Ensuring broilers optimize their water intake not only promotes the sustainability of broiler production through its influence on energy (ventilation) and water use, but also maximizes broiler health, welfare, and production. The routine on-farm recording of water intake is … Read more
When considering nutrition’s role in the management of the ever-changing and improving broiler, balanced protein (BP) and feed texture are vital features. Along with affecting productivity, inadequate BP may also strongly affect economic profitability due to potential negati… Read more
Stringy-spongy (SS), also known as spaghetti or mushy breast, is a breast myopathy characterized by the loss of structural connective tissue integrity of the breast muscle. This muscle tissue degradation leads to friability and loosening of the muscle fibers, which gives the… Read more
This training module was developed to assist and maximize the post-mortem process and evaluate the bird's lesions to determine their likely cause and possible significance. Read more
While the incidence of Broiler Myopathies is erratic and not observed in all regions of the world, it has become an important issue for the industry as a whole. This document can be used as a tool to aid in scoring broiler myopathies. For more detailed information, please re… Read more