Family poultry enterprises normally consist of small to medium-sized flocks of free-ranging birds. They are typically owned and cared for by household women and children. Generally, producers endeavor to supply their flocks with local or purchased feed supplements; various types of protection from pr...
Egg binding is an unhelpful term, as many practitioners and producers have different views on its precise definition. Hens can suffer from dystocia in which an egg becomes trapped in the vagina. The trapped egg may be visible on examination and will certainly be palpable. Large eggs (especially...
AVI Africa is the biggest poultry conference and exhibition on the continent. Bringing together all major players in the poultry industry, from large and small owner producers and suppliers to key decision... TradeshowAgriculture & ForestryMeat, Poultry & SeafoodAnimals & Pets ...
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...
In January, local producers have root vegetables, nuts, eggs, poultry, cheese, meat, baked goods, honey, and other products. And soon the local greenhouses will provide flowers, early vegetables, and vegetable starts. Winter markets are apparently still unusual, but they can probably be duplicat...
Let's go out there and look at what we are doing, what our contract producers are doing. Let's take those learnings, let's pull that together, and then we can start to look at (the question): What are the best ways to move that forward?” So, we've got lots that is ...
Yet, they and their roles have escaped investigation apart from bland acknowledgement as producers of waste, agents of disease, or shadowy features of the backdrop against which history happened. Certain species (namely pigs and poultry) were affordable to many city-dwellers and husbanded in these...
We have four reasons for devoting a column to this topic, arguably of interest mainly to poultry producers.What happens to chicken consumption matters. We’re not mainly worried about the fortunes of a handful of huge agribusinesses, though they have thousands of low-paid employees whose ...
This kind of real-time poultry welfare evaluation tool can help with early detection of abnormal individual/group broilers, so caretakers/producers can take measures to protect animal welfare and health immediately. The scanning system is expected to cause minimal impact on broiler flock and house ...
The difficulty of combining poultry range with fixed housing is that the yard near the house is almost inevitably over-manured and scratched to pieces, surrounding the house with a barren, muddy, polluted yard. The speed with which this happens often amazes backyarders and commercial producers al...