Foreign animal diseases (FAD) can cause substantial economic losses in production, consumption, and the supply chain. These are typically highly pathogenic lead to disruptions normal business practices demands for higher investment biosecurity practices. For poultry producers this changes bird pick-ups, chick placements, length of out time on farms as well day-to-day operations. When an FAD is ...

Tetramethyl thiuram disulfide (thiram) is an important dithiocarbamate bactericide; it has been widely used for the control of various diseases in fruits, vegetables, seeds and food grains. However, also causes environmental pollution problems poses a threat to human health certain extent. Thiram induces tibial dyschondroplasia (TD) by causing oxidative stress antioxidants imbalance growth plat...

The experimental results of betaine-aldehyde additive use in young quail diets rations have been provided. To conduct the experiment, two groups Phoenix quails at age 10 days fed with complete compound feed were formed. Poultry second group received additionally drinking water (Sumus LLC, Kazan). It has established that receiving supplement, live weight and average daily gains significantly gre...

Introduction The Campylobacter spp. are reported as the most common gastrointestinal bacterial pathogen in humans. According to the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) report the number of cases in EU in 2005 was 197 363 (EFSA 2006). Comparing to 2004 a 7.8 % increase was observed. Poultry meat products are considered to be a major source of campylobacteriosis (EFSA 2005). The final product c...

In April 1998 an outbreak of salmonellosis amongst guests at a wedding feast was investigated. Of the 58 attendees interviewed 38 (66%) subsequently developed gastrointestinal symptoms. Stool cultures from 7 cases grew Salmonella Typhimurium RDNC A045. Food samples were culture-negative for Salmonella spp. A cohort study implicated spatchcock (RR 2.5, 95% CI 1.09-5.77) and scampi (RR 2.0, 95% C...

Residual feed intake (RFI), defined as the differences between observed and expected feed intake based on growth and backfat, has been used to select for improved feed efficiency in beef cattle, poultry, and now swine. However, little is known about the main biological factors that contribute to the variation in RFI in swine. The objectives of the experiments in this thesis were to compare the ...

Campylobacter is frequently recovered from broiler carcasses. Carcass rinsing is a commonly used procedure for isolating Campylobacter from poultry. A viscous fluid, or weep, exudes from broiler carcasses that have been packaged. This fluid can contain bacteria that were attached to the carcass and represents a potential means of detecting Campylobacter-contaminated carcasses through cultural a...

The beef industry’s share of domestic meat demand continues to decline, as increasing vertical coordination in pork and poultry contribute to these industries’ ability to offer convenient, consistent, and less expensive products. For such vertical coordination to be effective, incentives must be properly aligned so that those responsible for making the most important investments for system prof...

Some of the major issues faced by the poultry industry are about; improving efficiency of production, reducing environmental pollution resulted from litter and reducing food cost. In general, to meet these challenges, series of attempts have been made by researchers. Some of them are inclusion of food additives to improve growth performance, reduction of specific nutrient concentration or manip...