Village poultry production dominates in Vietnam

Vietnam is a tropical country in Southeast Asia. It is 's'–shaped and stretches 2,000 km from North to South. Its area of 329.566 square km supports a population of 78 million and 80% of them are involved with agriculture. Many of them keep chickens.

Feed hygiene and poultry health

Every year more than 100 million tons of finished feed is fed to broilers alone. A small percentage of contamination can be very costly to the grower as well as for the consumer. Contaminated feed makes the final product unhealthy and unfit for consumption. It also may adversely affect production performance parameters such as health, body weight, feed conversion, mortality and the (re-)production rate of layers and breeders.

Selenomethionine boosts fertility in poultry

Organic selenium in poultry diets outperforms inorganic selenium in terms of improving fertility for both sexes, according to research by Dr. Frank W. Edens of the Department of Poultry Science, North Carolina State University.

Campylobacter: the state of the art

Dr. Jaap Wagenaar and Dr. ir. Wilma Jacobs-Reitsma, Institute for Animal Science and Health ID-Lelystad, The Netherlands

Campylobacter infections in humans have increased considerably in the past ten years. Since the beginning of Campylobacter history  poultry has been considered to be an important cause of infection in humans. Good co-operation is essential in working towards effective methods to cope with the problems.

Global Disease Update 2002: More problems to be solved

Every country in the world where poultry is kept in intensive or extensive forms  to produce proteins for human consumption is familiar with poultry diseases. Some countries have more problems than others, but more interesting is that some diseases can be found everywhere while others are unknown or cause a major problem. An update on major disease issues.

Elisa monitoring helps to improve your vaccination results

Vaccination is no guarantee that your birds do not become sick. Problems sometimes occur even when birds have been vaccinated against specific diseases. Has the failure something to do with the quality of the vaccine? Maybe, but more often, the problem is the result of poor vaccine handling and/or poor application. Elisa monitoring helps to improve the results and to detect the cause of failures

Improving mycoplasmosis control using PCR technology

Mycoplasmosis, caused by Mycoplasma gallisepticum (MG), M. synoviae (MS), M. meleagridis (MM) and M. iowae (MI), is a wide spread disease affecting poultry production all over the world. International poultry breeding companies are making a great effort to eradicate mycoplasma from their primary breeding stocks. Nevertheless, the control of mycoplasmosis in parent breeders and poultry production flocks still remains a problem in some countries.

UK poultry men told to "go for quality"

Imports of poultry meat into Britain have increased by 350 percent in just 10 years. New strategies are aimed at helping home producers survive.

SPACE is a show for the whole livestock industry

SPACE 2002 will, as every year in September, be the main event for the French stockbreeders and animal production professionals. Over the years Space has become renowned well beyond the French borders.

"DIVA" was a successful strategy to eradicate Avian Influenza in Italy

Italy has suffered severely from an outbreak of Avian Influenza. The unpredictable behaviour of the virus and ruling EU legislation made it difficult to control the devastating disease. The "DIVA" strategy made it possible to vaccinate the birds and differentiate them from naturally infected birds.

Disease specialists seek new ways to control costly LT virus

Sporadic outbreaks of Laryngotracheitis cause concern among US poultry veterinarians. They worry about the origin of the disease since there seems to be a relation between the outbreaks and the use of specific vaccines.