Natural and chemical colorants are attracting a lot of attention as sustainable feed additives due to their effect on food color because presentation matters consumers. Color also is major sensory factor that helps consumers determine quality its possible health benefits. For example, highly colored egg yolks can only come from healthy laying hens fed well-balanced, nutrient-rich diet. Consumer...

Laying hens are strongly motivated to use nests for egg laying, and alternative production systems (e.g., aviaries) provide artificial sites to meet this need and ensure efficient collection of clean, undamaged eggs. However, nests are typically not provided to allow simultaneous use by all hens; therefore, competition or mislaid eggs can result. To understand the influence of strain on laying ...

Current vaccination strategies for commercial poultry using live attenuated and inactivated Newcastle disease (ND) vaccines have some limitation and difficulties, and new vaccines with distinct features are needed. Recently, in ovo vaccination technology is concerned as a safe, efficacious, and convenient method. Common ND vaccines used in chickens cannot be employed in ovo due to embryo toxici...