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Salmonella Infantis: A resilient bug
3+ hour, 3+ min ago (543+ words) Huvepharma is a fast-growing, global pharmaceutical company with a focus on developing, manufacturing and marketing human and animal health and nutrition products. Building on our strong foundations, dynamic drive and clear business orientation have resulted in Huvepharma being one of…...
Feed Talks: Heat stress in poultry and pigs
1+ day, 1+ hour ago (193+ words) has been working for Pig Progress since 2005 and he became editor of the magazine and website two years later. Before joining Reed Business Information, he worked as a journalist at a Dutch newspaper and as a college teacher. He graduated…...
Estonia's poultry sector gets new entrant as Kapten Grant launches broiler line
1+ day, 55+ min ago (343+ words) After several difficult years, the Estonian poultry market has welcomed a new broiler meat brand designed to reduce price volatility and help prevent a further decline in self-sufficiency. Against this backdrop, seafood distributor Kapten Grant has entered the poultry segment…...
Salmonella restrictions lifted at UK poultry hatchery
2+ day, 2+ min ago (196+ words) Joice & Hill halted all chick deliveries from 13 April and removed 2 weeks of production from its incubators to allow for a full clean and disinfection of the site. The work was carried out under veterinary supervision and completed on 20 April. ALSO…...
Leveraging precision nutrition with Xtract 6930
1+ week, 3+ day ago (69+ words) Modern poultry production increasingly focuses on precision feeding, ensuring that nutrient levels are matched to the growth potential of each bird. One...
UK egg sector sees shift towards white-egg layers
1+ week, 3+ day ago (559+ words) White-egg laying hens are gaining a stronger foothold in the UK egg sector, according to a new survey by the Laying Hen Welfare Forum (LHWF), which highlights increasing producer experience as well as emerging trends in management, performance, and bird…...
BSFL enrichment boosts activity in fast-growing broilers
2+ week, 3+ day ago (335+ words) Scattering black soldier fly larvae in pens as enrichment increases the activity and natural behaviours of fast-growing broiler chickens and could improve poultry health and welfare, according to research from Nottingham Trent University. ALSO READ: Can black soldier fly larvae…...
Researchers propose practical One Welfare tool for broiler farms
2+ week, 6+ day ago (295+ words) The One Welfare concept challenges the traditional separation of human well-being, environmental sustainability, and animal welfare by emphasising their interdependence. However, its practical use as an evaluation framework remains limited, which prompted a study to develop and test an operational…...
Enhancing immunity and productivity in livestock
4+ mon, 6+ day ago (764+ words) develops, customises, sources and offers feed additives concepts for the animal nutrition market. In short: we create, select and deliver. As the feed additive specialist, we have dedicated teams engineering feed solutions with value added concepts for the animal production…...
Could Nitroxoline be used as an alternative to key antibiotics in poultry?
3+ mon, 2+ day ago (439+ words) New research from the Ineos Oxford Institute for antimicrobial research (IOI), working with China Agricultural University, suggests that Nitroxoline could offer poultry producers a viable alternative to commonly used antibiotics such as tetracycline. Nitroxoline, an older antibiotic, historically used to…...