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A package of support measures has been particularly targeted towards the UK turkey industry, which produces 11 million birds every year with just two-thirds consumed over the Christmas period. Photo: Marcel van Horn
11-11-2022 | News

New government support for poultry industry coping with bird flu

Photo: Alexas Fotos
10-11-2022 | News

Phosphorous reduction trials indicate production efficiencies in layer diets

Eggs and egg products are one of the most common vehicles in foodborne salmonellosis outbreaks. Photo: Alltech
09-11-2022 | Article

Optimal gut health stops the spread of food poisoning bacteria

Photo: MHP
09-11-2022 | News

Ukrainian poultry industry adapts to blackouts

Photo: Freepik
08-11-2022 | News

Egypt: Feed shortage results in chick culling

One of Kipster's male roosters. Photo: Kipster
07-11-2022 | News

First in US begins sparing male chicks as alternative meat source

Rural poultry may have a higher level of heat tolerance than commercial breeds. Photo: Rene Rauschenberger
04-11-2022 | News

Research: New varieties of heat-tolerant poultry breeds needed

Until recently the effects of different mineral sources in parent feed on bone development in broilers had hardly been studied. Photo: Henk Riswick
04-11-2022 | Article

Mineral source in parent feed affects broiler growth and bone development

Photo: ANP
04-11-2022 | Article

The bigger picture: Hot summer!

From mid-March, several large layer flocks in Iowa and Wisconsin were affected by avian influenza. Photo: ANP
03-11-2022 | Article

Analysing the 2022 US avian influenza outbreak

Thijs Hendrix, president of Hendrix Genetics, continues to focus on opportunities for growth and consolidation in animal breeding and life sciences. Photo: Martijn Steiner Lovisa
02-11-2022 | Interview

Interview with Thijs Hendrix: ‘Funding consolidation and growth’

A study ‘Feed additive for Reducing Incidence of Wooden Breast Disease in Commercial Broiler Chickens’ aimed to prevent or diminish deleterious changes in the breast muscle by using benfotiamine. Photo: Lexo Salverda
02-11-2022 | News

Feed supplement to reduce wooden breast in broilers

In Angola, laying hens are slaughtered after about 80 weeks. This accounts for most of Angola’s chicken meat production. Photo: Mickaela Scarpedis-Casper
01-11-2022 | News

Angola relies on poultry imports as demand increases

In poultry there are seven Eimeria species of the protozoal parasite coccidia that infect different regions of the intestinal tract. Photo: Lex Salverda
01-11-2022 | Article

How to optimise your coccidiosis management

31-10-2022 | Article

Nigerian poultry farmers suffer due to high feed costs

Photo: Alina Bordunova
31-10-2022 | News

War pushes egg prices in Ukraine to record heights