MLBA8: April / May 2009

 

Greengage launches LED light bulb for poultry industry

 

 

The new light bulb will reduce lighting-related energy consumption up to 90 percent and incorporates important animal welfare benefits, Green­gage said.

 

The Glo Agrilamp was developed in collaboration with Noble Foods, the largest egg supplier in the UK. Noble Foods had installed the Agrilamp for testing in three of its sites, reaching a total of 30,000 hens.

 

During testing, the new LED lamp was fine-tuned to achieve the perfect balance of light output and color-render­ing index for housed poultry environment, said Greengage.

 

The lamp had significantly-reduced levels of infrared, which can have a harmful impact on hen behavior, was designed to vibrate less than Compact Fluorescent Lamp (CFL), is fully dimmable, creating a dusk-to-dawn environ­ment, and could reduce heat emission by 50 percent.

 

Glo Agrilamp also has a guaranteed lifespan of 25,000 hours, and Greengage will be offering leasing packages to large farms to reduce up-front costs.

 

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Ceva Sante Animale introduces new poultry vaccines

 

 

CEVAC CORYMUNE 4 K is an inactivated vaccine which contains the serotypes A, B and C of Avibacterium paragallinarum (formerly known as Haemophilus paragalli­narum) and Salmonella Enteritidis (SE) in aluminum hydrox­ide adjuvant and it is used for prime vaccination.

 

CEVAC CORYMUNE 7 K is also an inactivated vaccine containing the serotypes A, B and C of Avibacterium para­gallinarum, SE, Newcastle Disease, Infectious Bronchitis and Egg Drop Syndrome in oily adjuvant and it is used for booster vaccination.

 

 

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