Humans and transport vehicles are often blamed for the spread of infectious diseases. How can you prevent this from happening? Transport vehicles many visit many different facilitates during a day. Therefore vehicle disinfection is of extreme importance.

Poultry diseases remain of major economic and public health importance. In recent years, public health concerns for food borne bacterial infections and antibiotic resistant strains have increased, causing major political issues in several countries. The following highlights key developments in the field of emerging and re-emerging poultry diseases.

Food safety starts with producing a clean product. During transport and processing a lot can go wrong. One has to be aware of the risks during collection, transfer and processing. Biosecurity – it's all about traffic hygiene.

A water bath at the entrance to poultry facilities is not enough to disinfect vehicles. Judging his biosecurity programme as insufficient,, Casey van Ginkey, a Canadian poultry grower, decided to make a portable self-contained automatic vehicle disinfection system.

Infectious diseases can spread quickly and wreak havoc on many farms. Past experience has shown that a maximum of biosecurity measures is required to reduce the possibility of spreading a disease.

Game and free-range birds are often believed to be more healthy birds than those kept for intensive production. However, in reality these birds suffer from diseases even more.

Modern poultry production is possible thanks to the efforts of many pioneers. Dr Hiram N Lasher is one. More than seventy years ago he became interested in poultry production and especially poultry health. Now he can look back at the brilliant career and worldwide recognition for his work. Here he reviews the highlights of his experiences in developing poultry biologics in the USA over the past seven decades.

Treating water can be a good way to improve animal performance, quickly treat diseases, or improve litter quality. Adding organic acids to drinking water can deliver health benefits for birds, while also helping to keep water pipelines free from bacteria.

Cleaning and disinfecting eggs and cabinets are just the first steps when aiming for optimal hatchery conditions. More effort is needed to ensure ideal hatching conditions. Operational biosecurity relies on correct management of ‘the three Ps’: People, products and procedures.

In recent years more and more attention has been given to single stage incubation. Is it that much better than multi stage incubation? Chick Master has long embraced multi stage incubation and knows the pros and cons of both systems. Let’s take a look at their views of both incubation options.