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Broilers & Turkeys

New production director for Cobb-Vantress in Brazil

Alvaro Burin, who has 25 years’ experience in the poultry industry, has been appointed production director for Cobb-Vantress in Brazil.

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Innovations and Strategies in Poultry Health and Production

Boehringer Ingelheim

This comprehensive webinar series from Boehringer Ingelheim delves into cutting-edge advancements and effective strategies in poultry health and production.

Processing & Slaughter

Russia’s Cherkizovo opens replacement chick facility

Cherkizovo Group has launched its first replacement chick site at its new poultry production facility in the Lipetsk region of Russia.

Breeding & Genetics

US foundation works to end African poverty with chickens

Can the World Poultry Foundation take a $21.4 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and, in four years, improve incomes and nutrition for millions of smallholder chicken farmers in rural Africa? That’s the challenge for the team leading the World Poultry Foundation, which is working in rural Nigeria and Tanzania to empower smallholder farmers – especially women – to earn higher incomes and improve the nutrition of their families through poultry-growing enterprises.

Breeding & Genetics

Hubbard introduces new M22 male line

Poultry genetics company Hubbard has developed the Hubbard M22 male.

Broilers & Turkeys

New Aviagen hatchery in New York now making deliveries

Aviagen’s new hatchery in Watertown, New York is now fully operational and has started shipping chicks to customers.

Breeding & Genetics

Consumer demand is best illustrated by providing choices

Taking a closer look at Compassion in World Farming objections to the National Chicken Council report on the environmental impact of slower growing broilers.The opinion piece authored by Katya Simkhovich, food business coordinator, Compassion in World Farming, raised three primary objections to the National Chicken Council’s study of the environmental impact of slower growing broilers.

Broilers & Turkeys

Guest commentary: NCC study overlooks consumer demands

The National Chicken Council (NCC) recently released a study that explored the potential environmental and economic impact of adopting slower-growing strains of broilers.

Diseases & Health

Cobb achieves first compartment status in Brazil

Cobb-Vantress has become the first company in Brazil to receive certification for poultry compartmentalization for avian influenza and Newcastle disease from the country’s Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Food Supply (MAPA).

Broilers & Turkeys

Study: Slower-growing broiler production has faults

The National Chicken Council (NCC) urges consumers, the foodservice and retail industries, and non-governmental organizations to invest in studying the impact in the United States of the growing market for "slower growing" broiler chickens.

Breeding & Genetics

Future of poultry breeding, balanced genetic selection

In the developed world, the broiler and layer industries find themselves in an unusual situation. Performance measures for livability, growth rate, feed conversion, and carcass and slaughter yield have never been better for broilers, and the same is true for persistency of lay, livability and feed conversion for layers.

Broilers & Turkeys

Researchers make progress on in-ovo chick sexing

Using an imaging technique called optical spectroscopy, a group of European scientists has identified a way to determine the sex of a chick within four days of the egg being laid.

Breeding & Genetics

Broiler breeder performance enhanced by nutrition

Proper nutrition during critical stages in broiler breeder growth produces better feed conversion, egg production.

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