Banned Antibiotic in Poultry Feed The U.S. FDA banned the use of fluoro­ quinolone antibiotics in poultry production in 2005 in part due to increased resistance to the drugs among Campylobacter bacteria. But a new study finds evidence that these antibiotics are still being used or are inadvertently contaminating poultry feed. The authors analyzed samples of U.S. and Chinese feather meal, a by­p...

A wide variety of zoonotic disease risks exists in poultry. Popularity of backyard and smaller production flocks is increasing, as is public concern about global poultry disease events. This paper discusses several of the more common poultry zoonotic diseases, their prevalence and presentation in both poultry and humans.

A broad array of HPAI control measures are being considered for the poultry sector in Viet Nam. Because the poor are highly represented in this country’s poultry production, any national strategy for intervention in this sector needs to take careful account of their welfare. The following figure shows that income from poultry production has an important equity effect in the Vietnamese economy, ...

The maintenance of poultry health is complex and relies on a delicate balance diet. Dietary fiber (DF) is a dietary component has a major influence in this regard. Utilization of fiber in the poultry diet as a supplements play an important role in poultry health as well as poultry production. Nowadays with increasing human population around the world the Utilization of natural source is a marke...

Abstract The article presents the parameters of device for renewable energy from poultry organic waste. authors describe experimental anaerobic processing waste and results implementation device. Broad considerations about obtaining alternative sources if dilution mode is used first time in biogas are given. Anaerobic treatment a bioreactor was to absorb odorous gases analyze production at diff...

risk and uncertainty in agricultural activities are being considered by agricultural producers as main obstacle in adopting new technologies and also mentioned as a hinder for the new agricultural investment. risk management is important and should be taken into account since uncertainty is inherent in the price and production as well as income of the farmers. in this paper, we study the role o...

Over the past decades, the poultry sector’s growth and trends towards intensification and concentration have given rise to a number of environmental concerns. A direct consequence of these structural changes (industrialization, geographical concentration and intensification) in poultry production is that far more waste than can be managed by land disposal is produced, resulting in environmental...

The use of organic fertilizers from pig slurry and poultry litter can increase soil carbon crop productivity. This study aimed to evaluate fractions corn yield after applying mineral fertilizers. experiment was conducted in the western region Santa Catarina State, southern Brazil on a Nitossolo Vermelho Eutroférrico típico (Rhodic Kandiudox). production system an integrated crop-livestock using...

On a survey during the period of 2006-2007 a number of tylenchids were found associated with Zea mays in Kashmir valley such as Pratylenchus sativus kaul, 1985, Aphelenchoides srinagrensis Kaul, 1985 and Tylenchorhynchus zeae Sethi and G. Swarp, 1968. These species were found to have morphometric variations probably due to habitat alteration from the originally described ones. As a part of the ...