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Saturday, June 24, 2017
Pigs and chickens, fish and milk: Europe's emerging agribusiness exporting machine
- Protein exports have grown by 121% and 8.2% annual rate in the ten years since 2007 - Luck and a strategic redirection of exports into Asia more than compensated for the loss of Russia's market - New emerging exporters like Spain, Turkey ...
Friday, June 16, 2017
Effect of supplementing organic selenium on performance, carcass traits, oxidative parameters and immune responses in commercial broiler chickens
An experiment was conducted to determine the effect of supplementing various concentrations (0, 100, 200, 300, or 400g/kg diet) of organic Se on growth performance, carcass traits, oxidative stress, and immune responses in commercial broile ...
Thursday, June 8, 2017
Chicken still Canadians' most favoured meat
Chicken has remained the favourite meat of Canadians, who each consumed an average of 32.5 kilogramme of it last year, the highest level of chicken consumption in Canada ever.
Thursday, June 1, 2017
China farm hit by bird flu, over 20K chickens killed
A private poultry farm in Shaanxi province in northwest China has been closed after being hit by an outbreak of H7N9 bird flu, which killed more than 20,000 chickens.
Tuesday, May 23, 2017
Hamlet Protein's specialty protein outperforms fishmeal in colour chickens in Vietnam trial
Production of colour chickens continues to grow in Vietnam and now accounts for more than 70% of the broiler market. That makes a good business case for boosting performance and profitability by using the best possible feed, Hamlet Protein ...
Monday, May 22, 2017
Hamlet Protein's specialty protein outperforms fishmeal in colour chickens in Vietnam trial
Production of colour chickens continues to grow in Vietnam and now accounts for more than 70% of the broiler market. That makes a good business case for boosting performance and profitability by using the best possible feed, Hamlet Protein ...
Tuesday, April 11, 2017
Evonik working on dynamic simulation model of chicken gut
Research on microbiota, microbiomes, metabolomes, and genomes is booming, Evonik says.
Thursday, April 6, 2017
Marek's disease in chickens: a review with focus on immunology
Marek's disease (MD), caused by Marek's disease virus (MDV), is a commercially important neoplastic disease of poultry which is only controlled by mass vaccination. Importantly, vaccines that can provide sterile immunity and inhibit ...
Tuesday, March 28, 2017
Oversupply causes chicken meat prices in Indonesia to flounder
Chicken meat prices in Indonesia continue to stumble due to oversupply of grandparent stock, or GPS, the People's Poultry Association (Pinsar) said.
Monday, March 20, 2017
South Korea to temporarily lift chicken import tariffs
South Korea has taken a beating from its worst bird flu outbreak so that it plans to lift chicken import tariffs next month to prevent further price increases.
Wednesday, March 8, 2017
The use of colistin and other critical antimicrobials on pig and chicken farms in southern Vietnam and their association with resistance in commensal Escherichia coli
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a global health problem, and emerging semi-intensive farming systems in Southeast Asia are major contributors to the AMR burden. We accessed 12 pig and chicken farms at key stages of production in Tien Gian ...
Wednesday, March 8, 2017
Protective effect of in ovo treatment with the chicken cathelicidin analog D-CATH-2 against avian pathogenic E. coli
Increasing antibiotic resistance and ever stricter control on antibiotic use are a driving force to develop alternatives to antibiotics. One such strategy is the use of multifunctional Host Defense Peptides. Here we examined the protective ...
Thursday, March 2, 2017
India poultry sector warns against US chicken leg imports
India's US$8.5-billion poultry industry has warned the government that allowing the importation of US chicken legs, after losing its case in the World Trade Organisation (WTO), could create a religious issue at home.
Wednesday, March 1, 2017
China Broiler Weekly: Prices tumble amid plunging chicken consumption (week ended Feb 22, 2017)
AA broiler prices broke new lows, plummeting a whopping 16% as markets tumbled nationwide. Farmers eagerly released inventories while the bird flu epidemic showed no signs of improving. With supplies in excess and consumers cutting chicken ...
Tuesday, January 31, 2017
South Africa fears collapse of chicken sector due to import influx from EU
South Africa fears a collapse of its chicken sector if something is not done to stem the "influx" of imported dark meat from Europe.

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