The proximate composition, pepsin digestibility, gross energy and macro mineral contents of 12 composite samples of poultry offal meal produced in Sri Lanka were analyzed. The average dry matter, ash, crude protein, crude fiber, ether extract, in vitro pepsin digestibility and gross energy of poultry offal meal were 92.3, 6.9, 48.9, 2.1, 32.4, 83.8% and 23.6 MJ kg, respectively. The average Ca,...

 Even though the poultry sector is only a small part of the Kenyan economy, almost all farmers are connected to poultry production and because of that, their livelihoods are likely to be affected by an avian flu outbreak.  Increasing the severity, duration and geographic spread of an avian flu outbreak may lead to significantly larger declines in poultry production.  The economywide costs of...

Recent generations of poultry students and poultry specialists generally seem to lack awareness of the vast genetic diversity which has accumulated in the domestic birds. This diversity has tended to become segregated within the realms of special purpose and special group such as industrial breeders and producers. There are many variants and variation in relation to species, body systems, and p...

The paper examines heat stress and its adverse effects as a hindrance to profitable poultry production in the tropics, with emphasis on the Northern Guinea Savannah zone of Nigeria. It elucidates the general negative effects of heat stress on physiological parameters of domestic chickens, and the specific impact of the stress on reproduction in the tropics. The deleterious effects are expressed...

The poultry industry has for some time occupied a leading role among agricultural industries in many parts of the world. Poultry meat production has shown much higher growth than any other type of meat during the past decade. The potential for growth is obvious in view of the value of this kind of meat in modern day human diets. Chicken meat production has been on the increase in all continents...