The extensive system of poultry production (commonly known as “free-range”) is based on the practice of allowing the bird access to foraging areas outside the poultry house. This system was widely practiced prior to the development of more productive strains of poultry and better management facilities (automated feeding and watering, better housing, environmental control) around the middle of t...

The demand for energy has been promptly increasing due to rapid growing world population and increased growth of industries. In the pursuit of renewable energy production, the anaerobic digestion of organic wastes was a proved technology that is shaping up to be the one of the reliable source of alternate energy. Even though the anaerobic digestion is an effective method of renewable energy pro...

1. Domestication and Development Of Breeds 1.1. Chickens 1.2. Turkeys 1.3. Ducks 2. Production Systems 2.1. Rural Production Systems 2.2. Intensive Commercial Production 2.2.1. Meat-Type Chickens 2.2.2. Egg-Type Chickens 2.2.3. Turkeys 2.2.4. Ducks 3. Marketing and Preservation 4. Worldwide Distribution 5. Yields of Product from Poultry 6. Composition of Products 7. Advantages and Disadvantages...

BACKGROUND Poultry production cluster (PPC) programs are key strategies in many Asian countries to engage small commercial poultry producers in high-value production chains and to control infectious poultry diseases. This study assessed the multiple impacts of PPCs through a transdisciplinary ecohealth approach in four Asian countries, and drew the implications for small producers to improve th...

Poultry litter usage in horticultural crop production is a contributor to nuisance fly populations, in particular stable flies (Stomoxys calcitrans L.) and house flies (Musca domestica L.). Extrapolation of adult emergence data suggests that approximately 1.5 million house flies and 0.2 million stable flies are emerging on average from every hectare of poultry litter applied as a preplant ferti...

Increased animal intensification presents with increasing risks of animal diseases. The Egyptian household poultry is peculiar in its management style and housing and this present with particular challenges of risk of infection to both the flock and humans. Biosecurity remains one of the most important means of reducing risks of infection in the household poultry, however not much information i...