46 2.2.3.3 Use and application Canthaxanthin (ECI61g) is approved for use as a food additive in the European Community but only for the colouring of Strasbourg sausages to a level of 15 mg/kg (Klepsch & Baltas, 1994). The predominant uses of canthaxanthin are in feed for laying hens, in order to colour egg yolks, in broiler production and in salmon and trout farming. Canthaxanthin has been mark...

Industrial animal agriculture is grounded in the concept of maximizing productivity and profit. Selective breeding for maximum productivity in one characteristic of the animal (e.g. milk yield in cows, or breast meat in broiler chickens) has resulted in genotypes and phenotypes that may predispose the animals to poor health and welfare. The conditions in which these individuals are kept may als...

AIM The objective of this study was to investigate the dietary advantages of inclusion of unconventional nutrient source, i.e., Azolla in the basal diet of White Pekin broilers. MATERIALS AND METHODS All ducklings were randomly distributed into three treatment groups with three replicates each and each replicate having 12 ducklings and were reared in deep litter system. Groups were subjected ...

BACKGROUND Reducing antibiotics overuse in animal agriculture is one key in combat against the spread of antibiotic resistance. Probiotics are a potential replacement of antibiotics in animal feed; however, it is not clear whether and how probiotics and antibiotics differ in impact on physiology and microbial ecology of host animals. RESULTS Host phenotype and fecal microbiota of broilers wit...

Broiler farming is one of businesses that can be developed to meet the needs animal-based protein for community, in addition providing jobs and increasing people's income. However, broiler farms release chicken manure whose smell disturb surrounding community. This study was conducted explain management farm waste has been running analyze advantages processing into compost as an effort realize ...

In the future the Mallee is going to be hot and dry. Farming in the Mallee is going to be very profitable sometimes, middling profitable in some years and not profitable at all at times as has always been the case. In 10 years time there will be less Mallee farmers; they will be farming a little differently to now; and most will earn a good living. The scale of operations will be greater. The r...

This study analyzed the drivers of profitability broiler farms in north-central and south-west geo-political zones Nigeria. A multi-stage sampling technique was employed to choose a representative sample. pre-tested, structured questionnaire gather cross-sectional data from 645 respondents between November 2017 February 2018 for production year by trained enumerators. The were with budgetary mo...

The effects of animal agriculture on the spread of antibiotic resistance (AR) are cross-cutting and thus require a multidisciplinary perspective. Here we use ecological, epidemiological, and ethnographic methods to examine populations of Escherichia coli circulating in the production poultry farming environment versus the domestic environment in rural Ecuador, where small-scale poultry producti...

The development of broiler farms is supported by the strengthening upstream industries such as breeding farms, feed mill companies, and veterinary drug downstream livestock product processing companies. This also encourages formation a business pattern from chicken farming. study aims to determine cost, revenue, income, feasibility partnership independent farming business. method used in this r...