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Nutritional strategies to target heat stress

When temperatures get higher, the birds can experience heat stress, thus leading to fewer eggs or compromised growth.


Nutriad discusses broiler gut health

Multinational feed additives producer Nutriad recently participated in the 11th Asia Pacific Poultry Congress organized by the World Poultry Science Association.


Identifying the genes behind sociality in chickens

Five genes that affect sociality-related behaviour in chickens have been identified by researchers at Linköping University in Sweden.
 
 
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Feature articles 
 
Ask the Vet

Ask the Vet: A year of change

What does the change in the use of medically important antimicrobials in poultry production mean to producers? How will results of the MIA-use reduction strategies be measured? What does the elimination of the use of Category II and III for prevention mean for my birds? In this Ask the Vet column, Dr. Tom Inglis addresses multiple concerns surrounding antimicrobial use in the Canadian poultry industry. » Read more
 
Cindy Egg Farmerette

Cindy Egg Farmerette: Come what May

New blog post from Cindy Egg Farmerette! “Since I last wrote, we were deeply entrenched in the construction of the Farmer Automatic Enriched Colony Housing for our next flock of pullets that will arrive later this month.” » Read more
 
 
Events 
 

Canada's Farm Progress Show

June 20 - 22
Regina, Sask.
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PIC Health Day

June 20
Stratford, Ont.
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Chicken Marketing Summit

July 22-24
Orlando, Florida
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Poultry Science Association AGM

July 23-26
San Antonio, Texas
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