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Apple Academic Poultry Farming by Tamara Brown
This book offers the latest research in the modern techniques of poultry farmingraising chickens, turkeys, ducks, and geese for the purpose of meat or eggs for food. It also covers some of the ethical considerations that have recently become prominent in this field, specifically, the tension between free-range poultry farming and more traditional caged poultry farms. Opponents of modern farming argue that it harms the environment and creates health risks, as well as abusing the animals themselves. Advocates of modern farming say these highly efficient systems save land and food resources due to increased productivity, stating that the animals are looked after in state-of-the-art environmentally controlled facilities. A few countries have banned cage system housing, including Sweden and Switzerland.Selected Contents: Causes of Mortality in Laying Hens in Different Housing Systems in 2001 to 2004; Costs of Two Alternative Salmonella Control Policies in Finnish Broiler Production; Consequences of Concurrent Ascaridia galli and Escherichia coli Infections in Chickens; Health and Welfare in Organic Poultry Production; Antimicrobial Resistance of Escherichia coli Isolates From Broiler Chickens and Humans; Oral Infection With the Salmonella Enterica Serovar Gallinarum 9R Attenuated Live Vaccine as a Model to Characterise Immunity to Fowl Typhoid in the Chicken; Broiler Performance Upon Dietary Substitution of Cocoa Husks for Maize; Chicken Management Systems and Egg Production in Delta State Nigeria; Essential Oils in Broiler Nutrition; Standardizing Limits for Cost of Production in Commercial Egg Operation; Effect of Chelated Calcium Proteinate Fed in the Maternal Diet of Turkey Breeders on Embryo Cardiac Physiology and Poult Quality; The Effect of Body Weight Prior to Molting in Brown Laying Hens on Egg Yield and Quality During Second Production Cycle; Effect of Probiotic Supplements on Egg Quality and Laying Hen's Performance; Newcastle Disease in Village Chickens in the Southern and Rift Valley Districts in Ethiopia; Protein Intake of Growing Indigenous Chickens on Free-Range and Their Response to Supplementation; Evaluation of Traditional Sorghum (Sorghum bico/ot') Beer Residue, Shea-Nut (Vitellaria paradoxa) Cake and Cottonseed (Gossypium Spp) Cake for Poultry in Burkina Faso: Availability and Amino Acid Digestibility; Isolation, Identification and Characterization of a Feather Degrading Bacterium; Effects of Green Tea Powder Feed Supplement on Performance of Hens in the Late Stage of Laying; Productive Performance and Immunocompetence of Commercial Laying Hens Given Diets Supplemented with Eucalyptus; Drinking Water Quality and its Effects on Broiler Chicks Performance During Winter Season; Metabolism Energy and Viscosity in Response to Cold and Tropical Cereals Area in Leghorn Pullets; Assessment of Immunologic Responses in Khaki Cambell Ducks Vaccinated Against Duck Plague; Effect of Different Dietary Energy Sources on Induction of Fatty Liver-Hemorrhagic Syndrome in Laying Hens; Chicken Toxoplasmosis in Different Types of Breeding: A Seroprevalence Survey in Southern Iran; Possible Effect of Antibiotic-Supplemented Feed and Environment on the Occurrence of Multiple Antibiotic Resistant Escherichia coli in Chickens