For egg producers, good manure management can further enhance their environmental profile.

Gut health plays a vital role in nutrition absorption, development of immunity and disease resistance in birds. However, when gut health is compromised, such diseases as necrotic enteritis and coccidiosis can cause major health concerns in a producer’s flock. Those concerns can ultimately impact feed intake and conversion leading to economic losses.

The poultry industry is, generally, not yet changing its feed formulations in response to above normal corn and soybean prices.

Adoption of prudent use and antibiotic free poultry production is progressing at varying speeds around the world and bringing with it new approaches to protecting poultry gut health.

The use of antimicrobials dropped sharply between 2013 and 2017, according to an on-going survey of the U.S. turkey and broiler industries.

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Phytase may have secured its prime position in poultry nutrition, but new enzyme developments will increasingly offer producers additional options.

Reduced antibiotic use in poultry production increases the need for maintaining a healthy and functioning gut. A key component of this is a balanced microbiota.

Could layer hens in the U.S. soon be tucking into a diet of hempseed meal and cake? They will be if a submission to have hemp approved as a feed ingredient in the country is successful.

Successful antibiotic-free poultry production is possible when right flock management techniques are followed.