Laying Hens Articles & Analysis
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An increasing number of farmers are aware of the significant role of sufficient poultry lighting, especially in the condition that they want higher quantity and quality products. Nowadays, more evidence has shown that sufficient poultry lighting can leave a strong and positive impact on the layering hens and the breeding broilers by maximizing egg production, stimulating mating cycles, and ...
Light can be utilized as a management tools to help optimize pullet and egg production in laying hens in a variety of environment. Why light color for chicken is important? ...
According to the research. pullets may be reared with warm or cool lights, but laying hens should have lights with a sufficient red spectrum (2700K-3000K) Hontech-Wins Chicken Lighting: Red Color: In poultry, red light is vital for stimulating sexual maturity and egg production. ...
Frédéric Grimaud (CEO of the eponymous group) states: “We are happy to apply all of our know-how to a natural diversification of our activities while continuing to support traditional animal sectors through investments focused on sustainability and animal welfare such as sexing duck eggs, or more recently, the inauguration of a new French hatchery with the latest standards in ...
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I’ve been dreaming of incorporating our laying hens into our field rotations for a year now, and just last week I completed our mobile coop, the Chickshaw, and got electric netting to get them out of the run and on pasture. ...
First, when cleaning up the broiler cage equipment, with the attachment, scan or pull out the old shavings and hen house to clean the floor if necessary. Sprinkle a thick layer of pine shavings around the house, between 8 inches and 12 inches deep. From the grain (chicken food) sometimes to the floor of the house, the shavings that encourage the hen to ...
Disease Management in Poultry In the spring of 2015, the second largest egg producer in the US lost 4 million laying hens to avian flu, illustrating a serious need for stronger disease management practices in the poultry industry. ...
Lallemand Animal Nutrition is pleased to announce that the Panel on Additives and Products or Substances used in Animal Feed (FEEDAP) of the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has given a positive scientific opinion for use of BACTOCELL®* (Pediococcus acidilactici MA 18/5M, deposited at Institut Pasteur) as a zootechnical feed additive in minor avian species, such as duck and game (quail, ...
The aim of the trial was to follow the fate of live bacteria Pediococcus acidilactici MA 18/5 (BACTOCELL®) along the intestinal tract of laying hens. Increasing doses of the probiotic were administered to laying hens. ...
Quality Handling was developed within the European project Welfare Quality® and is also available for pigs and laying ...
In addition, questions also arise as how to build on the U.S. and world’s egg producing experience and track record of success to increase the output of eggs per laying hen and increase layers’ feed use efficiency in the three decades to come? ...
EPA Region 7 announced today that it has issued administrative compliance orders to six concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) in Iowa, Kansas and Nebraska, directing those operations to correct a range of violations of the federal Clean Water Act. Region 7’s latest round of CAFO enforcement activity, aimed at encouraging producers’ compliance ...
The new proposed revisions to the IPPC include:• Reducing the current IPPC thresholds from 40,000 to 30,000 for laying hens, 24,000 for ducks and 11,500 for turkeys. This would mean smaller free-range and organic poultry farms would be included and increase costs to a sector already burdened with rapidly rising feed and fuel bills;• Lowering the thermal input ...