Scientific Articles

Kenya’s poultry farmers overcome climatic challenges In the East African state of Kenya, climate change is being blamed for increasingly erratic weather patterns. As well as local initiatives to encourage poultry farming, innovative farmers are finding ways to overcome the challenges, experimenting with different breeds and new feed ingredients. Finding the costs and challenges of […]

Researchers showing insect meal also improve calcium metabolism in laying hens Article Contents Abstract INTRODUCTION METHODS AND METHODS RESULTS AND DISCUSSION Notes ACKNOWLEDGMENTS REFERENCES Egg production and quality responses of adding up to 7.5% defatted black soldier fly larvae meal in a corn–soybean meal diet fed to Shaver White Leghorns from wk 19 to 27

Woody breast disease continues to baffle researchers Woody breast is a relatively new disease that adversely affects meat quality during processing, but poultry scientists still don’t understand its underlying causes, said Luke Borst, DVM, PhD, a veterinary anatomic pathologist at North Carolina State University. There may be some genetic and management factors at work —

Food waste as poultry feed could cut environmental impact Study finds ways to reduce carbon footprint of poultry meat production Incorporating plant and dairy wastes into feeds for broilers could significantly reduce the carbon footprint of poultry meat production, a major European Union project on sustainability in agriculture has revealed. Food waste and losses between