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Experiments show that the addition of betaine to poultry feed may help to reduce coccidiosis infect ion and heat stress, conditions that both involve cell osmolarity. Nutreco Poultry and Rabbit Research Centre put this theory to the test.
10 dec 2007
Necrotic enteristis (NE) associated with clostridium
perfringens is a complex disease affecting most poultry, especially broilers. NE
is one of the major challenges in poultry production today and requires creative
strategies for control. A key fa...
31 mar 2007
Heat stress and age are common causes of
reduced egg shell quality and incur large economic losses in the Indian poultry
industry. A number of plants are known to contain high levels of metabolically
active vitamin D3. Studies have shown that under a...
09 nov 2006
Knowing
what an animal needs is one thing, but predicting how it will respond to the
nutrients in the diet is far more difficult. This area has long been recognised
as an unresolved issue in nutritional science, and it was also a focus area at
the l...
01 apr 2006
The ingestion of mycotoxins by farm animals can result in specific
symptoms such as liver damage or egg production being affected.
Besides, mycotoxins can also affect the immune system of birds, even at
low levels. Mathieu Cortyl reviews some of the ...
01 oct 2005
Pakistan's tropical environment poses a great threat to poultry
production. Tanveer Ahmad and Muhammad Sarwar's research into dietary
electrolytes may prove vital to rescuing broiler performance under such
extreme conditions.
01 aug 2005
The research data is accumulating to
explain why some carbohydrates are not just feed ingredients- they are
effective feed additives, affecting specific metabolic functions. One in
particular, appears not only to be able to prevent pathogens getting ...
01 aug 2003
How do you meet legislative and consumer
demands whilst maximising health and productivity? Developing an effective
solution requires that all available venues are examined and traditional
approaches re-assessed. In Belgium
01 jun 2003
The application of fibres in diets for broilers, piglets and breeding sows is more about the physical properties of the fibre than any nutritional value they may have. Raw fibre concentrates maintain their most valuable properties whilst eliminating ...
01 apr 2003
Two enzyme products used widely in the poultry industry to improve the
digestibility of wheat- and maize-based diets have been found to have additional
effects on the numbers of bacteria in the gut of broilers that can cause food
poisoning in huma...
01 feb 2003
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