Welfare problems, such as hunger, frustration, aggression, and abnormal sexual behavior, are commonly found in broiler breeder production. To prevent or reduce these welfare problems, it has been suggested to provide stimulating enriched environments. We review the effect of the different types of environmental enrichment for broiler breeders, which have been described in the scientific literat...

This study was conducted in Al-Sharkia and El-Fayoum provinces, Egypt, aimed to determine factors affecting small-scale broiler chicken farm profitability challenges faced by farmers Egyptian rural. A stratified random sampling technique applied collect data from 200 individual randomly selected two 100 each province. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews with questionnaires di...

This pilot analysis was conducted with data from 52 conventional grow-out broiler flocks in a prospective field observational study in the southeastern United States during 2003-2006. Each flock was sampled for Salmonella 1 wk before the end of grow-out, upon arrival at the processing plant, and during processing (prior to and immediately after carcass chilling). The broiler litter was sampled ...

Broiler meat can become contaminated with Campylobacter of intestinal origin during processing. The present study aimed to identify the prevalence of Campylobacter in broiler flocks and meat contamination at retail shops, and determine the influence of semi-automated and wet market processing on Campylobacter contamination of neck skin samples. Samples were collected from semi-automated plants ...

BACKGROUND Farmers are exposed to multiple air contaminants that may interact with tobacco smoking in the development of respiratory diseases. Farmers are currently considered to smoke less than non-farmers, but precise data in different categories of age and farming activities are lacking. METHODS Smoking habits were studied in a cross-sectional study involving 4105 farmers and 996 non-farmi...

Small-scale broiler farming has become one of the fastest-growing sub-sectors in Zimbabwe. However, profitability levels these small ventures have been questioned due to rising production costs owing highly inflationary macroeconomic environment. Using a sample 110 small-scale producers selected using exponential non-discriminative snowballing sampling method, paper analysed factors affecting f...

An experimental study was carried over a period of 42 days using 160 day-old commercial broiler chicks (Ven Cobb) to study the effect of copper and flavomycin as feed additives on growth performance in broiler chicken. The birds were divided into four groups with four replicates of ten chicks in each replicate. The treatment (T1) was control with standard broiler ration and Cu as CuSO4 at 100 p...

The objectives of the present study were to examine the level of radiocesium deposit in meat and edible organs of broiler chickens as well as to investigate efficiency of natural sepiolite in reducing Cs deposition in meat, liver and gizzard of alimentary contaminated broiler chickens. Broiler chickens (six weeks of age) were fed with the standard diet and each broiler was given a single oral d...