Farm Poultry

Poultry Farm Characteristics and Poultry Farmers’ Perception of Farm Succession Planning in Southwest, Nigeria

Intergenerational succession aims at the renewal of family farm and addresses the problem of increasing aged population of principal farm owners. This study assessed poultry farm characteristics and poultry farmers’ perception of farm succession planning in southwest Nigeria. A multistage sampling procedure was used in selecting poultry farmers in Oyo and Osun states.  Data were analyzed using ...

poultry farm characteristics and poultry farmers’ perception of farm succession planning in southwest, nigeria

intergenerational succession aims at the renewal of family farm and addresses the problem of increasing aged population of principal farm owners. this study assessed poultry farm characteristics and poultry farmers’ perception of farm succession planning in southwest nigeria. a multistage sampling procedure was used in selecting poultry farmers in oyo and osun states.  data were analyzed using ...

Biofilm building properties of salmonella on the poultry farm

A very important aspect of biofilms in primary poultry production is that they can be a potential harbour for salmonellae as well as Campylobacter jejuni in the field and are often mentioned in respect to enhancing the resistance and virulence of salmonella. It was demonstrated that in Norwegian fish feed factory settings certain salmonella strains persist for years and are capable biofilm prod...

Mobile Olfaction System for Poultry Farm Malodour Monitoring

Postural evaluation in a poultry farm for broiler chickens.

The goal of this study was to evaluate working postures in 9 operations of poultry farming for broiler chickens for 14 body segments with 4 categories, and for fingers with 14 categories. Overall, the farmers commonly bent almost all their body segments and used power grips. The operations of cleaning with water wand and inspecting chickens seemed light work because the farmers walked around mo...