Source: Canadian Poultry Mag The best time to develop a relationship with all the professionals you need for the operation is when you start planning a facility or expansion. While every producer will develop a relationship with lawyers, bankers, accountants, contractors, processors and equipment suppliers, they often wait to get to [...]
A new generation of poultry production is taking shape. With it comes a new era in poultry health services. New expectations, new challenges and new opportunities all are coming together, particularly as demand shifts toward an emphasis on more judicious use of antibiotics including antibiotic-free production. A major advantage is emerging in the form [...]
Source: Canadian Poultry Mag In a chicken industry that is minimizing the use of antibiotics, our ability to provide an optimal clean environment is paramount. This can be achieved through cleaning and disinfection (C&D) and strict biosecurity. The Chicken Farmers of Canada (CFC), within their on-farm food and safety program (OFFSAP), [...]
Source: Canadian Poultry Mag Live vaccines contain naturally occurring mild pathotype or attenuated (weakened) viruses, bacteria or coccidia and are designed to elicit local and systemic immunity in birds. They are suitable for mass administration by water or spray. Live vaccines in broiler breeders and table layers are most often used [...]
Source: Canadian Poultry Mag Antibiotic resistance is real. In Canada and around the world, fewer antimicrobials remain effective in controlling infection as more microbes become resistant in both human and veterinary medicine. In its 2015 report on nationwide antibiotic use and drug resistance rates, Health Canada stated that ‘Superbugs’ (bacteria with [...]
Source: Canadian Poultry Mag Some perceive the term Veterinary-Client-Patient Relationship (VCPR) as formal and rarely used or understood. It does not have to be that way. Simply stated, a VCPR involves a veterinarian and poultry producer developing and maintaining a working relationship. Together, they promote bird health, prudent use of antimicrobials [...]
Source: Canadian Poultry Mag Virtually all poultry become exposed to the coccidial parasite, which often causes the important disease coccidiosis, noted by mortality and enteritis. Often, the enteritis can trigger another important disease, necrotic enteritis. Between coccidiosis and necrotic enteritis, flocks can experience high mortality (=>20 per cent), unthriftiness, poor feed [...]
Airdrie Life Business Profile: Science Worth Clucking About Carving into that Christmas turkey or sitting down to enjoy some chicken you picked up at the local supermarket, it’s easy to take for granted the science and technology involved in making sure your food is safe. Since Airdrie-based Poultry Health Services Ltd.(PHS) started in 2002 as [...]
Noticing an increasing trend of problems with mobility and lameness in your flock? Could this flock have rickets or tibial dyschondroplasia or is something else affecting their ability to move? While there are a number of potential causes for lameness in a flock we hope to explain what tibial dyschondroplasia (TD) is as well [...]
As a turkey producer you have probably heard about Hemorrhagic Enteritis Virus (HE or HEV) and you may even vaccinate your flock against this disease. It is not likely, however, that you have ever experienced a clinical HE outbreak. That is mainly because presentations of HE infections today are those of secondary immune suppression, [...]
