Water Quality and Broiler Performance
By Marco Quiroz, DVM, Manager of Product Development for Novus International Inc. and presented at the North Carolina Broiler Supervisor's Short Course Conference in April 2008. He emphasises the importance of removing biofilms from water-lines and outlines...

Runting/Stunting/Cystic Enteritis Syndrome
By John A. Smith, DVM, MS, MAM, ACVIM, ACPV, Director of Health Services of Fieldale Farms Corp. and presented at the North Carolina Broiler Supervisor's Short Course Conference. This article provides an update on the clinical features, temporal and geographic...

Weighing Broiler Breeder Females Post-Feeding
By R. Keith Bramwell, Jon R. Moyle, Doug E. Yoho and Bob S. Harper, University of Arkansas, Division of Agriculture. Published in Avian Advice, Spring 2008, Volume 10, No. 1. The conclusions have important implications for both the timing of...

Runting-Stunting Syndrome in Broilers
By F. Dustan Clark and Frank T. Jones, University of Arkansas, Division of Agriculture and published in Avian Advice, Spring 2008.

UK Poultry and Poultrymeat Statistics - July 2008
By Defra. This monthly publication combines the UK Hatcheries Survey and Poultry Slaughterhouse Survey results together with other Defra statistics, and trade data.

Scandinavians Focus on Food Safety and Welfare
Representatives of the Danish and Swedish poultry industries highlighted food safety in their presentations at World Poultry 2008 conference organised last month in London by Agra Informa, writes ThePoultrySite editor, Jackie Linden.

FAO Reports on Global Avian Influenza Situation
The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has published its latest 'HPAI Situation Update'. Outbreaks in commercial poultry were reported in Egypt and Bangladesh (one outbreak each), Republic of Korea (22) and Vietnam (6).

EU Moves Towards Compartmentalisation
At the World Poultry 2008 conference in London last week, Maria Pittman, from DG SANCO at the European Commission in Brussels, explained how compartmentalisation could help maintain market flow in case of an outbreak of avian influenza (AI), writes Jackie...

What is Behind Welfare Friendly Production?
By Chris Harris, Senior editor of ThePoultrySite. The debate between extensive and intensive poultry farming has come under close public scrutiny in recent weeks.

Yeast Beta Glucans and Broiler Chicken Growth
From the Atlantic Poultry Research Institute by B. Rathgeber, Agricultural and Agri-Food Canada, Kentville, NS, K. Budgell, Nova Scotia Agricultural College, Truro, NS, J. MacIsaac, Atlantic Poultry Research Institute, Truro, NS M.Mirza, Institute...

Optimizing the Performance of Early Nutrient Restricted Offspring From Young Broiler Breeders
By David Peebles, PhD Professor, Poultry Science, Mississippi State University, published in MSU Poultry Dept. Newsletter Vol. 1 Issue 3. The poor quality and excessive mortality of chicks during the first 7 days of brooding are frequently associated...

Economic Approach to Broiler Production
By Aviagen. Expressed in its simplest form, the profitability of broiler production is the value of the end product minus the input costs to produce that product.

Coccidiosis Management for Natural and Organic Poultry
By Anne Fanatico, NCAT Agriculture Specialist. - Both small and large poultry producers are interested in the sustainable management of the parasitic disease coccidiosis.

Online Growth Control as an Advance in Broiler Farm Management
By Ö. Cangar, J.-M. Aerts, E. Vranken and corresponding author D. Berckmans, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium and published in Poultry Science, Volume 86, Issue 3, March 2007.

Feeding Broiler Breeders for Chick Quality
By Aviagen - For a chick to fulfil its genetic potential as a broiler chicken, it is imperative that it has the best possible start in life.