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Poultry vaccination plays a critical role in protecting the bird against pathogens, illness and diseases, but effectiveness depends on proper administration and management.
If a robot can monitor penguin behavior and welfare in Antarctica, there’s no reason why the poultry industry shouldn’t also be leveraging autonomous technologies.
Water wash decreases the incidence of Campylobacter jejuni in broilers and the barn environment as well as disinfection, revealed research published in Applied and Environmental Microbiology.
Precision poultry farming technologies could provide several benefits to producers, including the control and monitoring of feed intake and data on nesting and laying behavior in broiler breeders.
Learn how certain substances in poultry drinking water can be detrimental to flock health and performance and hot to keep them within acceptable levels.
Researchers at The Ohio State University will investigate whether naturally occurring antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) could work as a novel therapeutic against avian pathogenic E. coli (APEC) in chickens.
Research to determine if monitoring poultry farms with game cameras to help trace outside sources that increase the risk of Salmonella could also be applicable to monitoring farms’ risks of being infected with highly pathogenic avian influenza.