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Winter Litter Management: Make the Most of Time Between Flocks
Litter moisture is one of the most important, if not the most important, litter management parameters at all times of the year. Proper litter moisture is critical to reducing: ammonia formation bacterial growth and litter caking The result is an environment better for maintaining paw quality and bird health. Maintaining low litter moisture is even more critical in cold winter months when ...
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Effects of Lighting Technology on Pig Welfare and Performance
The current pig industry faces the challenge of improving pig welfare and performance. The role of lighting technology has been largely overlooked, although the light is known to affect pigs' daily rhythms and productivity strongly. For example, pigs need suitable light levels to recognize each other, communicate, and view feeders. Pigs prefer to sleep in dim lights, suggesting that bright lights ...
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Factors of Lighting in Broiler Production
Factors of Lighting in Broiler Production Light greatly impacts all aspects of broilers, including body temperature, feed intake, metabolism, digestion, etc. In addition, light controls the intensity of different hormones, affecting broilers' growth, reproduction, and maturation. High-quality light can promote the broilers' healthy growth, contributing to a more reasonable growth cycle. ...
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All About LED Lighting Systems in Poultry Industry
All About LED Lighting Systems in Poultry Industry The poultry market is recognized as one of the most important industries globally due to its involvement in world food security and its leading role in international markets. On the other hand, light is an important aspect of poultry production. When poultry has a proper day-night cycle, they develop a proper circadian rhythm. This normal cycle ...
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Vytelle Announces The 2022 Top 150 Proven Bulls
Vytelle announces the release of the Top 150 Proven Bulls. Together, with more than 30 of their network partners, Vytelle is sharing high accuracy bulls that have risen to the top of more than 94,000 animals of 25 different breeds and more than 289,000 RFI EPDs. “Cattle producers need to be able to replicate the right genetics now,” said Kerryann Kocher, Chief Executive Officer for ...
By Vytelle, LLC
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LED Lighting for Poultry Housing
By Agricultural Engineer. The Canada Plan Service. Light levels (intensity or illuminance) and the duration of light (photo period) are important factors in poultry production. Intensity has an effect on cannibalism and aggression, along with feed and water intake, while photo period influences reproductive and egg production cycles, total feed intake, and growth rate. Light intensity at the ...
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Osborne to unveil new small animal performance testing system at World Pork Expo in Des Moines, Iowa, June 9-11
USA - Understanding the correlation between individual animal performance at a young age and performance in the finishing cycle has been lacking within the industry for decades. Historically, methods of testing young, nursery-sized animals has involved individually isolating animals and manual, labor-intensive monitoring of performance characteristics affected by genetics, feed, pharmaceuticals, ...
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Detect nutrition changes before you can see cow effects
Cows are ruminants and depend on a consistent ration with high-quality forage. Changes in ration consistency can impact cow performance. But it’s difficult to see how cows react to deliberate or unintended ration shifts before obvious signs occur, like a drop in your bulk tank or changes in cow health. Herd monitoring technology offers a way to detect early cow reactions, so ...
By Censortec
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Pasture-based systems to profit from sensor technology
Pasture-based systems to profit from sensor technology With the winter season around the corner, it is all about planning to make the year ahead a smooth and profitable one. Accurate and easy to use cow sensor technology from Nedap has been proven successful for pasture-based systems and helps to achieve farm goals and create peace of mind. The new breeding season is almost ...
By Censortec
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Crushing Roller Mill by KAHL
High-quality ingredients and an optimal formula are the most important factors in animal feeding. The importance of the feed structure, however, often goes unmentioned, although research and tests carried out by various institutes of the feed industry in recent years have shown that it is an at least equally important factor for successful feeding and animal health. For this reason, the machine ...
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The New Buddy Hutch Calf-Rearing System
Agri-Plastics, Group of Companies, announced today the introduction of the new Buddy Hutch Calf-Rearing System – the most efficient, easy-to-work-with calf rearing solution. This modified Group Hutch works perfectly for paired newborn calves. By pairing calves together, stress is reduced and their overall health and development are improved. Benefits of paired housing include: reduced ...
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Things You Need To Know About Animal Feed Pellets
Feed pellet means that the feed is crushed and pressed into a granular feed of varying diameters by a special compression molding. The feed pellet making machine produced by Zhengzhou Fusmar Machinery has better performance in pelletized feed. The raw material composition of the pellet feed can divide into a concentrate feed pellet, a mixture pellet, a coarse pellet, etc. More used are the ...
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The Importance Of Grease To Animal Feed Pellets
The feed pellet machine is a important machinery to make animal feed pellets, this article will introduce the importance of grease to animal feed pellets. No one doubts the importance of grease for the nutritional value of animal feed pellets, which has always been a very common feed ingredient used in feed. However, due to the large differences in the composition of fats and oils, this is a ...
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Things You Need To Know About Sheep Feed Pellets Flat Die Feed Pellet Machine
The sheep feed pellets are according to the sheep growth needs the nutrient concentration of each different stage, carries on the scientific formula. A variety of feed raw materials, including coarse feed, fine feed, feed additives, and other components, with the feed pellet machine equipment after crushing, mixing, and made of compound feed pellets. How To Choose A Suitable Feed Pellet Machine ...
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How to breed eco-friendly sheep
While carbon dioxide is perhaps the most notorious contributor to global warming, methane can be just as damaging a greenhouse gas. In fact, even though methane does not persist in the atmosphere as long as CO2, it can be 84 times more effective at trapping heat in the early years of its life than its more infamous counterpart, meaning that tackling methane emissions is a key challenge in ...
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What Is Animal Feed Pellets
Choosing a suitable animal feed mill and using it properly will significantly improve the quality of feed. It will soon reflect a benign effect in the production process. Zhengzhou Fusmar Machinery is a professional animal feed mill manufacturer, this article will introduce animal feed pellets in detail. What Is Animal Feed Pellets Animal feed pellet means that the raw materials crushed and ...
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Why Choose Sheep Feed Pellet Machine
The breeding industry is mainly engaged in raising pigs, raising sheep, raising cattle and raising chickens. Among them, sheep have higher meat prices, less risk, and faster growth and breeding, so they are widely loved by farmers. However, there are more farmers raising sheep, and sheep feed has become a problem for farmers to consider, especially for sheep farmers who are not easy to get ...
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4 reasons why you definitely need to visit Adifo at VIV Asia
VIV Asia, in Bangkok from March 13 - 15, is the ideal moment to drop by and discover Adifo’s revolutionary BESTMIX Formulation as a Service and other software solutions. The award-winning cloud-based collaborative platform, BESTMIX, is still revolutionizing the way information is interchanged between nutrition experts, plant formulators and the outside world. Below you can find 4 ...
By BESTMIX
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4 reasons to visit Adifo at IPPE
Come see us at IPPE in Atlanta from the 12th-14th of February and discover Adifo’s revolutionary BESTMIX Formulation as a Service. This award-winning cloud-based collaborative platform is still transforming the information interchange between nutrition experts, plant formulators and the outside world. Listed below are four reasons why a visit to Adifo’s booth will be one of the ...
By BESTMIX
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The plant extracts for feed additives
Application of Plant Extracts for Feed Additives:Broad-spectrum antimicrobial property and antiviralAntioxidant and Cleared freedom baseHeal digestive system. Treat diarrhea. Increase feed intake and feed returnsReduce inflammation and stimulate milk secretionImprove meat qualityFor a long time, the China market of animal feed was borrowing innovation ideas from the classical medicines. Chinese ...
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