Received: Revised: Accepted: 2014–05–26 2014–06–2

The present study aims to conduct a review on the potential use of insect meal as an alternative protein source in poultry feed, particularly serve rearing free-range chickens. Insects are already part diet birds their natural habitat, and availability low-cost foods with low environmental impact is essential for development activity. comprehended studies that used meals consisting silkworm (Bo...

A hyperspectral-multispectral line-scan imaging system was developed for differentiation of wholesome and systemically diseased chickens. In-plant testing was conducted for chickens on a commercial evisceration line moving at a speed of 70 birds per minute. Hyperspectral image data was acquired for a calibration data set of 543 wholesome and 64 systemically diseased birds and for a testing data...

Cooling is one of most common thermal processes used to improve the quality and safety of food products and to extend their shelf life (WANG; SUN, 2003). In industrial processing of poultry, immediately after slaughter, bleeding, hot water immersion, feather withdraw and viscera withdraw, poultry carcasses have to be chilled to reduce their temperature from approximately 40 to 4 °C, which contr...

The high incidence of disease is one of the major constraints to smallholder poultry production systems in Africa. In order to control various poultry diseases, ethnoveterinary medicine is widely practised by poor village farmers. Natural products, especially those which are locally available, are generally used. The use of ethnoveterinary medicine cari be considered sustainable as it is econom...

Campylobacter is a major foodborne pathogen responsible for acute gastroenteritis characterized by diarrhea that is sometimes bloody, fever, cramps, and vomiting. Campylobacter species are carried in the intestinal tracts of mammals and birds, and sources of human infection include raw milk, contaminated water, direct contact with pets, and foods, particularly poultry. Campylobacter jejuni and ...

With the removal of antibiotics, poultry industry is challenged with identifying a valid alternative to antibiotics similar capabilities. Organic acids like citric acid are agents capability reduce pathogenic bacteria and increase nutrient digestibility through their effect on pH in gastrointestinal tract. Citric improves animal welfare economic concerns by reducing body weight loss improving m...

Mapping the number and distribution of Salmonella on poultry carcasses will help guide better design of processing procedures to reduce or eliminate this human pathogen from poultry. A selective plating media with multiple antibiotics (xylose-lysine agar medium [XL] containing N-(2-hydroxyethyl)piperazine-N'-(2-ethanesulfonic acid) and the antibiotics chloramphenicol, ampicillin, tetracycline, ...

Fatunmbi 0.0., D. F. Adene: A Ten year Prevalence Study of Marek's Disease and Avian Leukoses at Ibadan, Nigeria. Acta Vet. Brno, 55, 1986: 49-53. Diagnostic studies were undertaken on the prevalence of Marek's disease (MD) and Avian Leukoses (AL) between 1975 and 1984. Over the period, 22 cases of outbreaks of MD and 19 cases of outbreaks of AL were recorded. During this period, there were two...