For a long time—at least since 1969—different Poultry Science Association (PSA) members have been concerned about disappearing poultry science departments, faculty, and programs. With the steady attrition of poultry programs at universities has been an opposite trend in the poultry industry, where growth has steadily increased. After many years of monitoring the status of poultry science depart...

Sorghum and pearl millet are two important dry land crops that provide grain and fodder. India is the largest pearl millet producer and second largest producer of sorghum in the world. The productivity of these crops has been low due to various reasons such as unavailability of quality inputs to the farmers, lack of access to improved technologies for crop production, unavailability of credit o...

High population growth and growing income lead to increasing demand for poultry products in Nigeria. The poultry industry has emerged as the most commercialized and fastest expanding segment in the animal husbandry subsector but still faces many problems. Private investment from foreign countries could help to facilitate this market. This paper reveals the opportunities and threats of a market ...

Received: Revised: Accepted: 2014–05–26 2014–06–2

Electrical water bath stunning is the most commonly used method for poultry stunning prior to slaughter, but has been questioned on animal welfare and product quality grounds. Controlled atmosphere stunning (CAS) methods, involving a variety of gas mixtures, have become increasingly common, at least in Europe. CAS methods have been perceived as an improvement from an animal welfare perspective,...

Genomic selection using high-density SNP panels was first implemented in dairy cattle breeding programs. It provided benefits in terms of reduced generation intervals, improved accuracies of selecting young animals, and reductions in costs associated with the requirement of progeny testing bulls in traditional breeding programs (Hayes et al., 2009). Several distinct features of the poultry bree...

Consumers are more and more interested in the health aspects of their food. Therefore, it is essential for poultry meat production to be aware of factors affecting poultry meat quality. Furthermore, changes in consumption features and the increasing interest of consumers in value for money products have to be considered. Nutrients in poultry meat may be divided into classes with positive (impro...

Chickens have been in Papua New Guinea since the time of the Austronesian settlements some 2000-3000 years ago. In historical times, new types of poultry were introduced. Chicken keeping slowly spread but only recently into the highlands. From the late 1960s through the 1980s, serious attempts were made to improve village poultry production through the distribution of dualpurpose chickens and M...