Buffalo Development Project, Bangladesh Livestock Research Institute, Savar, Dhaka, Bangladesh This study attempts to estimate the income from native poultry production and analyze the efficiency of resources used covering three coastal districts of Bangladesh namely Noakhali, Patuakhali and Satkhira. A total of 180 poultry rearers were selected from different villages of the districts using pu...

Immunosuppression has historically cost the poultry industry in increased mortality and in performance factors during rearing. In addition, immunosuppression has had a negative impact on the ability of the poultry industry to process chickens due to associated health problems. Industry strategies for controlling immunosuppression are not consistent between broiler companies. The broiler industr...

The introduction and survival of zoonotic bacterial pathogens in poultry farming have been linked to bacterial association with free-living protozoa. To date, however, no information is available on the persistence of protozoan communities in these environments across consecutive rearing cycles and how it is affected by farm- and habitat-specific characteristics and management strategies. We th...

The increase of productivity in the poultry industry has been accompanied by various impacts, including emergence of a large variety of pathogens and bacterial resistance. These impacts are in part due to the indiscriminate use of chemotherapeutic agents as a result of management practices in rearing cycles. This review provides a summary of the use of probiotics for prevention of bacterial dis...

INTRODUCTION Live poultry exposure and risk behaviors are more prevalent in rural communities, increasing the risk of influenza A/H5N1 infection. We examined the economic and socio-cultural influences on poultry-related practices by comparing the poultry-related practices among Vietnamese and Thai rural residents by family income and consumption preference. METHODS Stratified cluster sampling...

In the study of arthropods in poultry manure, the key predator of house fly larvae encountered was the beetle Carcinops pumilio Erichson (Coleoptera: Histeridae) (Achiano and Giliomee, 2003, 2005a, b, 2006a, b). It is also considered as a major predator in the suppression of synanthropic flies in poultry houses in the USA (Legner, 1971; Geden and Stoffolano, 1987) and in Britain (Bills 1973, Co...

Poultry industry has always been a dynamic and integral part of national economies in many countries. Economic losses incur especially in large-scale rearing facilities, often attributed to the deterioration of environmental conditions, poultry exposure to stressors and development of diseases. While antibiotics have been commonly used for prophylactic purposes and as growth stimulants, extensi...

There is a gap in knowledge of microbiological quality in raw chicken products produced by nonconventional methods and no studies have reported the microbiological quality of turkeys produced under different rearing environments. Thus, the aim of this study was to compare the microbiological quality of conventionally and organically reared whole chicken and turkey carcasses purchased from 3 ret...

Eimeriosis is responsible for causing serious problems in poultry, mainly characterized by reduced weight gain and abnormalities of food conversion efficiency, thereby causing great economic losses. The aim of this study was to evaluate the epidemiology of eimeriosis in broiler chickens in the Araguaina region, State of Tocantins, Brazil. Samples from five farm properties were collected and sen...