The twenty-second world's poultry congress and exhibition, held from June 8-13 in Istanbul, Turkey attracted more than 1,600 visitors. On the nutrition agenda were many well-known names, both international and homegrown and some newcomers.

01 aug 2004

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...

01 aug 2003

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

Young chicks are immature in terms of their physiology and immune responses, therefore delivering the right combination of nutrients in a readily digestible for is vital. Oleosomes are effective in dispersing and transporting oil bodies in nature. T...

01 aug 2003

Growth promoting antibiotics improve average daily gain in broilers and pigs thanks to a combination of better feed conversion and enhanced voluntary feed intake. With a total ban in the EU from January 2006 and dwindling public acceptance elsewhere,...

01 jun 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, this has resulted in the...

01 jun 2003

Emulsifiers. Nothing new, many will say. And indeed their use has long been practiced in our industry. Although their main use was to improve fat solubility in aqueous media, farmers using them were found to be adding more than was recommended- and g...

01 apr 2003

What happens to probiotic bacteria as they travel from the feed through the digestive tract? Should live cells be used or spores? The activity of probiotic preparations in the digestive tracts of pigs and chickens was explored thoroughly for one spec...

01 apr 2003

The benefits of mannanoligosaccharides in diets for pigs and poultry are many-fold and appear more subtle as each new paper is published. Studies in broilers and turkeys have shown that the beneficial effects on intestinal morphology and humoral immu...

01 apr 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