August 2021

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A UK veterinarian is a recipient of a ’10K research grant from Trouw Nutrition, in the context of the company’s aim to improve the sustainability of dairy farming by increasing the longevity and performance of dairy cows.

Manila Bulletin

Ducks are another kind of poultry that provides a valuable contribution to human health and nutrition because their meat and eggs have health benefits that many people enjoy. Duck eggs are larger than chicken eggs, weighing 10 to 20 grams more. It is estimated that a duck egg provides about 70 grams of food with both the yolk and whites intact. But aside from providing more food, duck eggs also contain minerals such as calcium, iron, magnesium, phosphorus, potassium, and sodium.

In a new review in the Journal of Dairy Science, a team from Iowa State University Department of Animal Science critically reviews the current accepted understanding of cow health between giving birth and beginning to produce milk to investigate the reasons for persistent health problems. Their findings suggest lines of inquiry that may prove more effective and call into question methods and conclusions of previous research and how such work has been applied in the dairy industry.

African swine fever (ASF), first detected in Germany in domestic pigs on 15 July 2021, does not pose a health hazard to humans. “The ASF pathogen cannot be transferred to humans”, explains Professor Dr. Dr. Andreas Hensel, President of the German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR). “No risk to health is posed by direct contact with diseased animals or from eating food made from infected domestic pigs or wild boar.

In high-income countries, per capita consumption of animal protein – meat, fish, dairy, and eggs – is expected to ‘level off’ over the next decade, according to a new report.

Supplementing poultry diets with glutamine could help reduce the severity of necrotic enteritis (NE), according to researchers.

Use of thermal imaging cameras to measure facial temperatures may offer a non-invasive option for assessing heat stress in commercial broilers, according to research from the University of Arkansas.

A hen has the natural desire to breed. To enhance her chance for offspring she will look for a safe, clean and sheltered place to lay her eggs.

A phage cocktail reduced Salmonella count to below detection limits in broilers, according to the findings of a recent study by experts based at AB Agri, along with the Universities of Leicester and Nottingham.

The University of Maryland received collaborative funding to enhance efficiency of pork production through improved pig muscle growth. Little is known about how the benefits of early life nutrition can be passed from mother to child, and improved muscle growth means a healthier animal, less feed and waste, and a more sustainable pork industry. This work also has future applications beyond the pork industry to optimize human performance and treat wounded service members.

A new research project funded by USPOULTRY has evaluated euthanasia methods for large poultry like broiler breeders and turkeys and identified four methods that meet production and welfare guidelines.

The Philippine government, in partnership with one of Thailand’s biggest agriculture and food conglomerates, has launched a credit program for local hog raisers affected by the dreaded animal disease African Swine Fever (ASF).

TheFishSite

The startup combines sensors, software and services – based on data analysis capabilities using artificial intelligence (AI) to transform aquaculture from art to science. It aims to help the region’s shrimp farmers increase yield, predictability and implement sustainable aquaculture practices, while reducing risks and costs.

TheFishSite

An app that’s designed to help fish and shrimp farmers in Singapore and beyond is due to be launched next month. The app is currently being developed by Blue Aqua International, analytics software company SAS and Temasek Polytechnic’s Aquaculture Innovation Centre. The initial model will enable shrimp and fish farmers to use real-time data analytics technology to track critical parameters such as water quality, feed management and animal health.

The Poultry Site

Vietnam confirmed its first outbreak of H5N8 avian influenza at a chicken farm in the northern province of Quang Ninh on 2 July. It said the tests were conducted after around 200 chickens had been found dead at the farm last month. “H5N8 not only kills poultry but also infects humans without leaving symptoms,” the head of the province’s animal health department, Tran Xuan Dong, said.

Global Trade (GT) Venture Co. Ltd., an arm of the Japanese government-owned Tokushima Auction Market (TAM), is investing $1 billion in Pangasinan for a complete value-chain aquaculture facility. In a statement Friday, the provincial government said Pangasinan Governor Amado I. Espino III and TAM President Yoshihisa Arai signed the memorandum of understanding (MoU) on July 29 for what will be called the Pangasinan Fish Farming (PFF) project.

The deadly floods in the central province of Henan resulted in direct economic losses of 2.25 billion yuan (US$348 million) for China’s poultry and livestock industries after 248,000 pigs and 6.4 million chickens died.

Last year, when an exotic disease reached Singapore’s shores, a chain of testing, investigation and contact tracing was triggered to contain it. It’s not COVID-19, but rabbit haemorrhagic disease or RHD – a deadly disease for bunnies that was detected in Singapore for the first time …

The Philippines is seen to produce and import less chicken this year amid tight demand and global supply, data from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) showed. In its latest report, USDA’s Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) here in Manila (Post) revised downward its outlook on the Philippines’ chicken meat production and imports for the year.

Large numbers of pigs are dying from African swine fever in China’s top hog-producing province, say farmers and analysts, raising concerns it could spread further across the south and slow China’s pork production recovery.

Philippines’ pork imports for this year are still seen to go higher at 425,000 metric tons (MT), even despite the already 401 percent surge in pork imports the country recorded from January to April of this year. This is following the release of the Department of Agriculture’s (DA) guidelines that specified how the importation of an additional volume of 200,000 MT of pork under the tariff-rate quota or Minimum Access Volume (MAV) will be implemented.

The Philippine government, in partnership with one of Thailand’s biggest agriculture and food conglomerates, has launched a credit program for local hog raisers affected by the dreaded animal disease African Swine Fever (ASF).