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Nutripollo commissions Pas Reform for hatchery expansion

11 May 2012 - Integrated poultry producer Nutripollo has commissioned Pas Reform Hatchery Technologies to renovate and expand its hatchery operations in Aguascalientes, Mexico. Read more >>

Ceva Asia Pacific holds 1st Hatchery Vaccination Summit

11 May 2012 - Ceva Animal Health Asia Pacific held the first “Hatchery Vaccination Summit Asia - The Future is Today” on Jeju Island, South Korea from April 26th - 27th 2012. The conference attracted more than 150 professionals from 10 different Asian countries who collectively produce over 3 billion broilers. Read more >>

South Africa brings a year of ostrich culling to a close

11 May 2012 - With the culling of 360 ostriches in the Oudtshoorn area, the Western Cape agriculture department has brought its culling programme to a close. Read more >>

Mysterious and large-scale chicken deaths haunt Taiwanese farm

10 May 2012 - A Taiwanese chicken farm is going through a mysterious die-off, with 3,250 chickens dead in the last three days. Read more >>

TV chef teams with Moy Park for chicken range

10 May 2012 - TV chef Jamie Oliver and Moy Park, the UK's largest producer of chicken, have teamed up to develop higher welfare chicken products that will launch under the Jamie Oliver brand. Read more >>

Vencomatic wins prestigious Dutch award

10 May 2012 - Dutch poultry housing company, Vencomatic, has received the prestigious ‘Koning Willem I’ award 2012, in the category Small and Medium Sized Enterprises. Read more >>

African poultry producers opt for energy efficiency

10 May 2012 - Each month more producers in Africa are discovering the value of increasing the energy efficiency of their poultry housing, according to Allan Meldrum, director of Food Chain Innovation Ltd. Read more >>

Optivite launches new water disinfection system

10 May 2012 - A new ‘intelligent’ system which will automatically chlorinate and make drinking water safe for all animals has been launched. Read more >>

Poultry meat production hits record levels in Russia

10 May 2012 - The production of poultry meat together with the edible poultry by-products in the first quarter of 2012 increased by 20.7%, up to 826,000 tonnes, according to data recently released by the Russian Federal Statistics Service (Rosstat). Read more >>

Nigerian local government plans poultry farm to employ youth

10 May 2012 - Isiukwuato Local Government Area, located in southwest Nigeria, in Abia State, intends to set up an integrated poultry farm with the aims of tackling youth unemployment and generate revenue. Read more >>

Chick Master to distribute Anolytech water disinfection technology

09 May 2012 - Chick Master and Anolytech officially signed an agreement for Chick Master to promote and sell the Anolytech water disinfection system for the poultry industry. Read more >>

Nigeria callls on its poultry farmers to improve quality

09 May 2012 - Poultry farmers in Nigeria have been called upon to improve the quality of their products during a workshop held in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), in a association with the Poultry Association of Nigeria. Read more >>

USDA unveils new method for tracing contaminated poultry

09 May 2012 - The US Department of Agriculture has announced a new method for tracing E. coli-contaminated poultry and meat through the US food chain in order to protect consumers from eating tainted products. Read more >>

Philippines urges local poultry producers to hold off strike

09 May 2012 - Philippine poultry and pork producers are planning to strike to show their discontent with the government’s inability to crack down on illegal, smuggled meat imports. Read more >>

Pancosma launches new website

09 May 2012 - Following recent changes to its corporate identity, animal nutrition company Pancosma has launched a new website, www.pancosma.com. Read more >>

Feed prices harming Indian poultry industry

09 May 2012 - The poultry industry in the Indian state of Hyderabad is facing a severe crisis because of abnormally high prices of maize and soya bean. Read more >>

Research: Synbiotic to control campylobacter in poultry

09 May 2012 - Italian research investigated the use of a Bifidobacterium-based synbiotic product to reduce the transmission of C. jejuni along the poultry food chain. Read more >>

Staalkat introduces OptiGrader 400

08 May 2012 - After the commissioning of the first series of the OptiGrader 600 from Staalkat, a smaller capacity model has been added to the range: the Optigrader 400. Read more >>

AECL: 20,000 free range hens a hectare

08 May 2012 - The Australian Egg Corporation Ltd (AECL) is going forward with plans to set up free-range farms that comprise 20,000 birds a hectare, while some free-range critics are calling for limiting the free-range appellation to 1,500 birds or fewer. Read more >>

Prinzen Ovoset ready for market

08 May 2012 - The Prinzen Ovoset is an affordable solution for setting hatching eggs onto setter trays by a machine. Read more >>
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