Article by: Dr. Deepikesh Joshi & Anupam Kumar Azad PhD Scholar (LPM), Dept. of Livestock Production Management College of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, GBPUAT Pantnagar, Uttarakhand-... Read more
Traditional Poultry Health Assessment If your poultry farm has experienced a devastating disease outbreak, then you know just how important biosecurity is. In fact, it should be the top prio... Read more
Basically, you have the choice between two ventilation principles in poultry farming: natural and mechanical. Natural ventilation One advantage of natural ventilation is the low investment d... Read more
Alltech has released data from a new meta-analysis, published in Poultry Science, that demonstrates that dietary supplementation with Bio-Mos® at 1.0 kilogram per ton improved the production... Read more
Marel processing systems such as ATLAS live bird handling, CAS SmoothFlow, Nuova evisceration and giblet harvesting, IRIS vision grading and SmartWeigher are already capable of handling 15,0... Read more
Growing demand for organic fertilizer The global organic fertilizer market is growing at a high rate in terms of volume, and the market continues to grow due to factors such as the expansion... Read more
Jim Johnston MTech Sales Director Europe, Middle East, Africa What an exciting industry the Middle East poultry sector is! The sector is growing and expanding rapidly as the region looks to... Read more
Over the last 2 decades, the shape of broiler breeder hatching eggs has changed significantly, becoming rounder or with both ends becoming symmetrical. Current automatic farm packing and pro... Read more
Mireille Huard, Senior Technical Services Manager Poultry South Europe at Novus International, Inc. Recent findings indicate that nutrition helps improve meat and carcass quality in modern b... Read more
Following the very successful EggsCargoSystem® for chicken eggs, GI OVO has now also developed the EggsCargoSystem XL. The XL system is specially designed for the transport of duck and turke... Read more
Moba has created a game changer with their new Vision Crack Detector. Through Artificial Intelligence (AI) the Vision Crack can see even the tiniest cracks that are not visible to the human... Read more
MEVAC is the first and largest private factory for manufacturing vaccines in Egypt, the Middle East and Africa, officially launched in 2011 with an “Egyptian & American partnership” util... Read more
In the poultry sector, there is a global trend towards choosing group nests over individual nests. Wannes Dermaut explains how farmers want to optimize house space and make smart investments... Read more
Due to unstable environment caused by global warming and continuous innovations of advance technology equipment, many farmers now are force to “Shift from Traditional Cages into Fully Automa... Read more
Evonik has made a follow-up investment in the biotechnology start-up In Ovo through its venture capital unit. The investment comes as the young company reaches the commercialization stage fo... Read more
Algae are being increasingly explored for their nutritional, structural and biological properties. For 20 years, Olmix has developed marine biotechnology for Animal and Plant Care. Olmix is... Read more
How a library of 2000 packs can be beneficial for you Moba egg graders are packed with technology. Some designs are worth further investigation as they represent crucial customer value. In t... Read more
For many turkey growers, a management program that includes regularly tilling litter is a thing of the past. For others, it’s a necessary tool to maintain quality litter. Why the difference?... Read more
Illumination and control of the layer chicken house Scientific and reasonable supplementary illumination can not only promote the normal development of laying hens, reduce the morbidity and... Read more
Mavitec solutions create high protein and high digestibility With a global growing need for proteins and energy, processing animal by-products offers an essential part of the answer to this... Read more
Breeding has powerful effects. Although all chicken breeds originate from the same wild ancestor, they differ dramatically in appearance, physiology, type and metabolic rate. Surprisingly th... Read more
Avian coccidiosis is a parasitic diseases with a great impact on poultry worldwide because of the negative effects on productive performance, as it causes growth stunt, worsening of feed con... Read more
The arrival of day-old chicks at the farm is a critical period at which husbandry practices can impact the development of the intestinal and immune system. Of many crucial practices, the lay... Read more
Silver ion technology, on which GI-OVO Clean Compound® is based, inhibits the growth of microorganisms as pathogen microbes and bacteria. Since ancient times, the properties of the silver io... Read more
Breeding has powerful effects. Although all chicken breeds originate from the same wild ancestor, they differ dramatically in appearance, physiology, type and metabolic rate. Surprisingly th... Read more
Moba, the world’s leading producer of high-quality integrated systems for the grading, packaging and processing of consumption eggs, introduces its new extension in the Omnia grader fa... Read more
Sustainability most often refers to a process aimed at balancing economic, environmental and social interests for a given project or action. In the field of food and agriculture, the FAO has... Read more
The optimal status of the digestive mucosa is an essential factor for animal health and meat and egg production Health and productive performance are tightly related to nutrition. This is be... Read more
Refraining the use of antibiotics in poultry feed has aggravated outbreaks of Necrotic enteritis (NE) even more often. NE is an acute Clostridium infection characterized by severe necroses o... Read more
More than ever, poultry processors around the world have to guarantee their production or even increase it to keep the entire food supply system operating. In many cases, processors had alre... Read more
News of avian influenza (bird flu) is resurfacing around the globe. Cases of H7N3 are confirmed in the U.S.; H5N8 has been reported in Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Ukraine and... Read more
Farmers, poultry integrators, avian zoo-technicians and veterinarians are continually seeking to increase the performances of poultry farms, within the context of limiting the use of antibio... Read more
Coccidiosis is the bane of poultry farming. Each year, this parasitic disease costs over 3 billion USD to the industry worldwide, in production loss as well as in preventive and curative tre... Read more
Since the introduction of the ban on beak trimming, untrimmed laying hens have had more difficulty drinking from the drinking nipples. They tend to spill more, and their water intake can dec... Read more
As people across the globe are re-discovering home cooking, grocery items such as milk, flour, and eggs are in higher demand than ever. Legendary chef Michel Roux once said that “Eggs are mo... Read more
Juxing Chen and Mercedes Vázquez-Añón* Contact: Mercedes.vazquez@novusint.com Summary The poultry industry seeks for ways to improve efficiency and cost of production. One way to improve eff... Read more
The poultry gut houses a complex and dynamic ecosystem formed by microorganisms (bacteria, protozoa, fungi, yeasts, bacteriophages, and other viruses), within the lumen and attached to the m... Read more
Farm animals and poultry can carry a range of diseases, some of which can be passed onto humans. These diseases are known as ‘zoonoses’. Transmission may result from direct contact with dise... Read more
Your egg grader produces a considerable amount of data. All this data can give insight into the improvements for your operation. But turning the masses of present-day data into valuable info... Read more
Vanbet Hatchery, located in Comuna Banca in north-east Romania, is one of the largest poultry businesses in the country. In addition to its broiler chicken production, the company has found... Read more
Phytogenic substances like herbs, spices and other plants and their extracts power feed additives like Biostrong® Comfort, a new Delacon product proven to help birds to stay cool during heat... Read more
Under the category of healthy nutritional solutions, Evonik offers a group of probiotics to help our customers maintain a sustainable animal production process. In the EMEA, Evonik offers Ec... Read more
The user-friendly Fortica® system controls four broiler houses, with a total of 110,000 animals, at the Mekkes farm in Geesbrug, located in the province of Drenthe in the Netherlands. Contro... Read more
Moba introduced its grading machine the Moba Forta GT100 (Grading Technology 100) in the Spring of 2019. The Forta GT100 can produce 100 cases/hour or 36,000 eggs/hour and can be equipped wi... Read more
Heat stress is the most important factor affecting poultry production: extreme temperatures obviously affect the birds very much resulting in high mortality rates and in loss of productivity... Read more
Nourishing day old chicks is essential in order to obtain good zootechnical and economical performances. A windowed hatching process followed by intensive handling procedures and transport i... Read more
Moba’s Vision Crack Detection Moba is proud to announce two innovations in the field of crack detection. As hygiene is becoming more important, Moba takes the next step in its hygienic progr... Read more
Jansen Poultry Equipment have various solutions for the production of hatching eggs, poultry meat and consumption eggs. Innovative solutions, designed by specialized poultry managers and eng... Read more
Evonik releases a new service product group that enables poultry producers to improve livestock production by monitoring the microbial status of entire flocks. ScreenFloX® is the only enviro... Read more
Normally one would expect stories about innovations and new applications. In this case, however, we zoom in on a small but very important detail in egg graders that has existed for decades:... Read more
Cobb-Vantress, Inc. / Siloam Springs, Arkansas, USA: Cobb Europe recently welcomed poultryprofessionals from 28 countries to the biennial Cobb Europe Technical Seminar held July 7-13 in Hard... Read more
Is the so-called dual-purpose chicken an alternative to conventional chicken breeds? Researchers investigated this question within the recently completed “Integhof” cooperative project. Big... Read more
Cobb-Vantress, Inc. / Siloam Springs, Arkansas, USA: Eight top-performing Cobb-Vantress customers across Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) were recently named champions based on their ou... Read more
Octopus Robots company has developed a range of robots to compensate for the lack of solutions to decontaminate extensive buildings such as livestock buildings, food warehouses but also airp... Read more
