Newsletter No. 62 Item 3a Improving production performance offers the greatest opportunities for optimising resources. Some examples: Breeders consume approximately 2,300 kilograms of feed per trio per annum. Genetically ostrich can produce 100 and more eggs, but only when the … Continue reading →
Newsletter No. 60 The following blog, authored by Mojtaba Yegani, was published this month under the title: Poultry Nutritionists and Veterinarians – How interactive are they? on the World Poultry web site. The poultry industry is a complex network of technical … Continue reading →
Newsletter No. 59 – Item 3 & 4 This section of the newsletter discussed the importance of testing the forage fed to production livestock to ensure the nutritional profile of the batch is accurate to enable the nutritionist to balance … Continue reading →
Newsletter No 59 – Item 1 & Item 2 The meat market is highly competitive and never more so than today, with rapidly increasing ingredient prices that make excellent feed conversion ever more important. Previously we have discussed the tremendous … Continue reading →
Newsletter No 55 – Item 3 & 4 An important element of any assurance scheme is the Veterinary Health Plan. The Veterinary Health Plan (VHP) is a requirement of most Farm Assurance Schemes and retailers “codes of practice”. The VHP … Continue reading →
Newsletter No. 54 Establishing a market for their products is critical to the success of any business. With livestock, it used to be that you would raise your animal and when it was finished, take it to market. Today that … Continue reading →
Newsletter No. 50 Item 4 A quote from the article published here: Quote: The small intestine of the newly-hatched chick is immature and undergoes significant morphological, biochemical, and molecular changes during the 2 week post-hatch. The timing and form of … Continue reading →
Newsletter No 50 – Item 3 Breeding for Meat Quality and High Yield Products is an article written by a major poultry genetic specialist company. The introduction states: Quote: At Cobb, we understand how the quality of these traits impacts … Continue reading →
Newsletter No. 50 Item 2 Aviagen is one of the largest poultry companies in the world. All are aware of the tremendous advances made in the efficiency of poultry production. Their article entitled Feeding Broiler Breeders for Chick Quality discusses … Continue reading →
Newsletter No 50 Item 1 Quote: References are very much a double-edged sword, or perhaps a bazooka. In the wrong hands, they can do far more harm than good. And in the, essentially, unchecked system that we now have, one … Continue reading →
