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Hungary hosting Aviagen’s successful Central European seminar
01-07-2011 Aviagen Kft, Aviagen’s Hungarian business unit, recently held their 5th seminar for Central European (CE) Parent Stock customers. Attended by over 220 guests from 17 countries, the...
Jerry Moye named 2011 industry leader of the year
27-06-2011 Jerry Moye, President of Cobb-Vantress, was named the “2011 Industry Leader of the Year” by The Poultry Federation during their 52nd Annual Poultry Festival.
Benefits of benchmarking discussed with Ross distributers
17-06-2011 The 6th annual Ross Distributor Customer Focus Team meeting, attended by Grandparent customers from Turkey, the Middle East and Africa (TMEA), recently took place in Antalya, Turkey. One of...
Czech broiler seminars supported by leading hatchery firms
14-06-2011 More than 130 broiler farmers and poultry specialists took part in seminars at Litomysl and Havlickuv Brod, organised by Cobb Germany and the two biggest Czech hatcheries Mach and Xavergen.
Aviagen achieves compartmentalisation certification
07-06-2011 Aviagen has achieved compartment status for all of its facilities, paving the way for the compartmentalisation concept to become a global reality.
Contract poultry farming proposed in India
01-06-2011 The state cabinet in India is expected to clear a proposal for permitting contract poultry farming, the Times of India is reporting.
Genome selection implemented in US poultry breeding programs
01-06-2011 "New developments in genomics have provided opportunities to enhance breeding programs in poultry by being able to genotype large numbers of individuals for tens of thousands of genetic...
Artificial neural networks: A new tool in poultry research
27-05-2011 At the Western Poultry Diseases Conference, held last March in Sacramento, the audience was served a bit of a difficult subject: The use of artificial neural networks. But what does it...
Thijs Hendrix to be knighted in French order
25-05-2011 The ambassador of France in the Netherlands, His Excellency Jean-François Blarel, will knight Thijs Hendrix as “Chevalier de l’Ordre du Mérite Agricole” the National Order of Agricultural...
Hubbard organises successful technical training on GP management
09-05-2011 Broiler breeder, Hubbard organised another successful Grand Parent Stock training at the end of March 2011.
Aviagen puts effective broiler management on the agenda in Hungary
05-05-2011 Aviagen Kft, Aviagen’s Hungarian business unit, recently held two seminars for broiler customers of their parent stock customers Nagisz Zrt. and Gallus Kft. The events, which took place in...
Cherkizovo launches large scale poultry project in Russia
26-04-2011 Russian meat producer Cherkizovo has started building a huge poultry complex worth $685 million, making it the largest Russian agro-industrial project in the central Russian Lipetsk region.
New distributor for Indian River in Pakistan
22-04-2011 Al-Noor Chicks has been appointed the exclusive distributor of Indian River products, an Aviagen brand, in Pakistan.
Dutch seminar focuses on achieving broiler performance potential
22-04-2011 ...a technical seminar in Vught in central Holland. The event focused on the influence of hatchery and parent stock management, and feeding programmes, on Cobb 500 broiler performance today.
Cherkizovo Group opens new poultry breeding line
15-04-2011 Cherkizovo Group one of Russia’s leading integrated and diversified meat producers, has opened its second line of the poultry breeding facility at its Bryansk cluster.
Cobb seminar in Canada focuses on breeders and broilers
11-04-2011 ...producers and leaders from the British Columbian chicken industry took part in a seminar at Abbotsford organised by Cobb to provide technical expertise on breeder and broiler production.
Study: Egg laying behavior influenced by feeding
11-04-2011 In Canada, the University of Guelph’s Department of Animal and Poultry Science examined how feeding might influence egg laying behaviour in commercial broiler breeder hens.
Aviagen completes takeover of Grelier France Accouveur
06-04-2011 Aviagen France, the newly-formed business unit of Aviagen, is now the primary supplier of Ross stock to the French market following the conclusion of the agreement to purchase the...
Coating hatching eggs allows longer storage times
05-04-2011 ...carried out at the University of Athens in Georgia, USA to examine the effects of treating broiler breeder hatching eggs with removable coatings at four storage times on hatchability...
Indonesia: Lohmann Brown seminar discusses breeding selection goals
04-04-2011 Persistency of laying rate, egg quality, feed efficiency, health status and behavior, were the aspects mentioned by Dr. Hans-Friedrich Finck – Managing Director of Lohmann Tierzucht, as the...
Rasun expands to become integrated poultry producer in Iraq
29-03-2011 ...for Iraq, has announced an agreement to extend its Grandparent (GP) production base in order to meet the growing demand for Ross 308 Parent Stock (PS) and broilers in the country.
http://www.worldpoultry.net//rasun-expands-to-become-integrated-poultry-producer-in-iraq-id8680.html
Poultry CRC studies effect of incubation on leg strength
28-03-2011 ...during egg incubation can affect the long-term leg strength of fast growing meat chickens (broilers), according to a recent study at The University of Sydney, funded by the Poultry CRC.
AA SA seminar focuses on poultry house ventilation
25-03-2011 The recent Arbor Acres South Africa (AA SA) 3rd annual customer seminar, held near Johannesburg, focused on poultry house environmental control and ventilation.
Czech poultry workshops examine critical points of PS management
22-03-2011 Aviagen’s central and eastern European technical team recently organised two workshops with Xavergen, one of the largest poultry producers in the Czech Republic.
Israel ready to invest in Ukrainian poultry production
18-03-2011 Israel is ready to invest in intensive poultry production in Ukraine and road construction under municipal loans, the press service of Prime Minister of Ukraine Mykola Azarov has reported.
Poultry breeding advances fuels Indian River’s expansion
10-03-2011 ...demand for an affordable source of protein, Aviagen’s Indian River brand is responding by delivering high-performance breeder and broiler products to more customers than ever before.
US: House of Raeford Farms cuts broiler production
09-03-2011 House of Raeford Farms, one of the US’s top 10 fully integrated poultry processors has announced a decrease in broiler production by 10%.
Vencomatic seminar focuses on managing perfection
08-03-2011 Poultry production is demanding higher efficiency standards in the years to come, says Vencomatic. Company sizes are getting bigger and becoming more complex, feed supply will become more...
Probroed & Sloot takes-over chick hatching company
04-03-2011 Probroed & Sloot, the largest independent broiler hatchery in the Netherlands which delivers one day old chicks to farms in Holland, Germany and Belgium has acquired Dutch chick hatching...
Aviagen holds 1st European Veterinary Forum
04-03-2011 Poultry breeding company, Aviagen, recently hosted the inaugural European Veterinary Forum. This meeting included veterinarians who support the health and welfare of Aviagen Grandparent...
Get the light right
01-03-2011 Light is an important management tool in broiler production. If used successfully it can influence aspects of growth, productivity and behaviour, and is therefore the subject of intense...
Aviagen continues to expand European production base
21-02-2011 Aviagen, the poultry breeding company, continues to develop their European production base with the acquisition of the remaining 50.44% of Ross Breeders Peninsular SA, the distributor for...
Report: Indonesian poultry industry looks promising in 2011
04-02-2011 In the seminar of Indonesian poultry outlook 2011 in Jakarta, it was estimated that Indonesian poultry industry could grow around 6%, writes Arief Fachrudin for World Poultry.
IPE forum examines challenges of poultry industry
03-02-2011 Speaking at the Poultry Market Intelligence Forum at the 2011 International Poultry Expo in Atlanta, Dr. Paul Aho, principal, Poultry Perspectives, commented, “The two biggest challenges...
Aviagen releases hatching and incubation guides
01-02-2011 Aviagen, the poultry breeding company, has released a series of ‘How To…’ guides looking at the hatching and incubation process.
People: Aviagen strengthens Ross TMEA team
26-01-2011 Aviagen have announced that Robert Haggarty has joined the Turkey, Middle East and Africa (TMEA) Team as a Technical Service Manager.
Hubbard celebrates its 90th anniversary in 2011
25-01-2011 ...From the small flock of chickens with which Ira and Oliver Hubbard began the business in 1921, Hubbard has grown to one of the major international broiler breeding companies in the world.
Local poultry production encouraged in Bahamas
24-01-2011 Bahamas Agricultural and Industrial Corporation (BAIC) chairman Edison M. Key wants to help increase the local production of poultry products. With the assistance of College of The Bahamas...
Chore-time releases new broiler feeder
21-01-2011 Chore-Time has released its newest addition to its feeder innovations, the Liberty broiler feeder, designed to increase feed visibility and save feed. The feeder’s open grill provides easy...
Disapproval voiced for bird flu resistant GM chickens
17-01-2011 The UK Soil Association is strongly opposed to the development of GM chickens which are claimed to be genetically engineered to stop them spreading avian influenza.
GM chickens developed that don’t transmit bird flu
14-01-2011 Chickens genetically modified to prevent them spreading bird flu have been produced by researchers at the Universities of Cambridge and Edinburgh. The breakthrough could prevent future bird...
Yuhe International acquires ten breeder farms in China
07-01-2011 Yuhe International, a supplier of day-old chicken raised for meat production, or broilers, in the People's Republic of China, has entered into a series of asset purchase agreements to...
Fifth Cobb pedigree complex to go ahead in USA
22-12-2010 ...in the USA. This will be the fifth such pedigree complex in the country, catering for ongoing growth in global sales of broiler breeder stock and also an enlarged Cobb gene pool.
Aviagen SweChick on the road in Scandinavia
21-12-2010 Aviagen SweChick, Aviagen’s Swedish business unit, recently held a series of broiler roadshows for customers in Denmark, Norway and Sweden. Overall, the events were attended by over 130...
De Heus produces specific feed for Aviagen in Poland
20-12-2010 Aviagen EPI (producer of Ross breeding stock) and De Heus Pasze in Poland signed an agreement to supply specific feed for Aviagen Grand Parent Stock (GPS). This will be used at the Aviagen...
French group visits Cobb in USA
17-12-2010 The potential of the Cobb700 broiler for further processed products was the focus of the French Group Glon’s visit to the Cobb world headquarters in Arkansas, USA.
Aviagen hosts Canadian young farmers recipient in Huntsville
15-12-2010 ...in Alabama. Laurens is a hatching egg producer from Bowden, Alberta. He is the recipient of the Canadian Broiler Hatching Egg Producers Association’s (CBHEPA) young farmers programme.
Chicks on the move
06-12-2010 ...chicks will typically travel to the farms where they will spend the majority of their lives. Broiler and layer chicks do not usually travel great distances, unlike PS and GPS chicks....
Cherkizovo launches poultry breeding facility in Bryansk
06-12-2010 OJSC Cherkizovo Group, one of Russia's leading integrated and diversified meat producers, has opened the first line of the poultry breeding facility at its Bryansk cluster.
Arbor Acres Grand Parents now in Algeria
24-11-2010 Aviagen Parent Stock (PS) customers in Algeria will now be able to source Arbor Acres stock directly from Algeria following the establishment of Arbor Acres Algérie, a Grand Parent (GP)...
