What comes to your mind when someone talks about poultry veterinary practice? Well, I know it can be a broad term. The method of poultry veterinary medicine includes all aspects of preventing, managing, diagnosing, and treating diseases, disorders, and injuries in animals. And during practice, we...

Dealing with extensive housing systems for laying hens is no easy task, and changing the production system is just as hard. Lately, we’ve been seeing some movement towards conversion from conventional systems to alternative cage-free systems for laying hens, which has been driven by...

The standard method for assessing fertility involves counting the sperm penetration holes in the inner perivitelline layer or measuring sperm mobility. However, little is known about the proteins involved in either assessment. Nutrition is also an important aspect of poultry reproduction, and...

Collecting poultry data is essential to improve production. That’s even more important when discussing quantitative genetics and genomics of complex traits. This research allows us to apply and develop efficient statistical learning methods for analyzing genomic data. We can integrate this...

How does a university research feed mill work? As far as the routine goes, feed mill researchers conduct experiments, facilitate the manufacture of research diets to meet internal or external demands, and deal with day-to-day operations associated with budgeting, maintenance, and human resources,...

 It’s always a good idea to keep an eye on what is going on in the egg world. In order to keep producing in the most efficient manner, we must understand the current economic situation. People might think understanding the egg economy is not a big priority, but we do need to know a bit...

Precision poultry farming utilizes a variety of tools, technologies, and even procedures to optimize the production and the environment – including the  response of birds to it. The goal here is to achieve the highest performance, welfare, and profits possible. As a matter of fact,...

Nutrition is a key to success in poultry production. That means that every process involved with nutrition is crucial to ensure the best outcomes – and that’s where the feed mill comes in. Understanding and improving feed mill processes and regulations, feed milling operations,...

As we discuss the future of poultry production, animal welfare always comes up as a hot topic – but what do we really know about it? Is it possible to understand what and how a chicken feels? Measuring emotion and affective state in chickens is quite a novel and complex field of study in...

It is possible to work in a variety of areas related to poultry production, but the goal is always the same - achieve the best possible outcome for the animals, producers, and consumers. Our role as technical support for poultry production requires us to be adept at these aspects and find a...

Poultry production includes more than just one species. Each one of them has its own characteristics, so production for each species is conducted differently. There are many differences between turkeys and chickens when it comes to nutrition, general management, facilities, and behavior, so the...

There are many differences between backyard poultry operations and commercial poultry systems. Backyard poultry can include pets as well as animals as a food source – such as eggs – and diseases can be introduced into the flock in many ways that are unnoticed by the owner. And...