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Breeding & Genetics

How to manage broiler breeder leg health

Leg health must be monitored closely in broiler breeders, but it can be controlled with the correct management.

Brand Insights

Tools for efficient crop and seed applications

New Leader Manufacturing

Learn how New Leader Manufacturing is providing solutions for cover crop and seed applications, and reducing waste for farms.

Breeding & Genetics

Better Chicken Commitment or Worst Chicken Commitment?

Retailers and other people affiliated with all stages along the poultry supply chain were urged not to engage in conversations about adopting the Better Chicken Commitment, saying it is all part of a plan for animal rights activists to put an end to put an end to animal agriculture.

Breeding & Genetics

Ingham’s seeks to buy Bromley Park Hatcheries assets

The New Zealand Commerce Commission received a clearance application from Ingham’s to acquire the Cobb Commercial and Riverland businesses of Bromley Park Hatcheries.

Broilers & Turkeys

Select Genetics building turkey hatchery in North Carolina

Select Genetics will build a new turkey hatchery in Wayne County, North Carolina.

Breeding & Genetics

Turkey hatchery places emphasis on animal welfare

A new turkey hatchery system that places more emphasis on animal welfare in the earlier stages of life is designed to set poults up with a good foundation to thrive as they grow into adult turkeys.

Broilers & Turkeys

Maatman taking over as Hendrix Genetics CEO

Richard Maatman will take over as Hendrix Genetics’ CEO and chairman of the executive committee, effective April 1.

Egg Production

More avian flu cases found in Mexico, Argentina

Six new cases of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) have been reported in Mexico and one new case has been reported in Argentina, according to the World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH).

Breeding & Genetics

Ingham’s to acquire Bromley Park Hatcheries

Ingham’s, Oceana’s largest producer of poultry, entered into an agreement for the conditional purchase of the poultry meat business and assets of New Zealand’s Bromley Park Hatcheries (BPH).

Breeding & Genetics

Can fish meal help with broiler breeder fertility?

As the broiler industry is hoping hatchability rates improve, North Carolina State University researchers conducted a study to see if fertility in breeding roosters could be improved by giving them a feed that included fish meal.

Breeding & Genetics

New X-ray procedure could transform layer breeding

Quickly and accurately X-raying layers should help breeders select for greater bone strength.

Broilers & Turkeys

Hubbard breeders finish $25 million R&D expansion project

After Hubbard announced its research and development (R&D) investment in April 2021, the poultry breeder company’s Walpole, New Hampshire expansion project is finally completed.

Avian Influenza

Second HPAI virus variant detected in Japan

In a concerning development, Japanese authorities have detected a second HPAI virus serotype in commercial poultry. 
Earlier this month, broilers at a farm on the southernmost main island of Kyushu tested positive for the H5N2 serotype, according to the official notification to the World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH).

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