From the very first moment an egg is laid until it reaches its final destination, a commercially produced egg travels a long journey. On this journey it faces numerous impacts and possible contamination sources. Vencomatic Group focuses on perfecting every detail of this journey, calling it the “Egg...

As the key development area of "the Belt and Road", Kashi, Xinjiang, with animal husbandry as one of the local pillar industries, its extensive and traditional breeding habits fail to help the herdsmen get rid of poverty.Stout and strong sheep in spring and autumn Thin and weak sheep in winterSheep...

By: Lotte Hebbink, Incubation specialist Pas ReformEgg break-outs are often part of the routine of a hatchery. As the procedure for these is time consuming, the findings are usually based on a limited sample size. Suppose that a hatchery manager wants to test a new incubation program intended to...

The European Symposium on Poultry Nutrition organized every two years by WPSA is the major scientific event in poultry production. 2017 was truly a success with participants from all over the world. What drive appetite and feed intake in birds? Prof Eugeni ROURA and Prof Henry CLASSEN A crucial...

Heering is a company which specialises in providing poultry transport services, particularly for delivering day-old-chicks from hatcheries.Gerrit van der Linde, Senior Poultry Specialist at Heering tells why they collect real time data during transportation, and how getting partners and customers...

Recently, the "2018 ZHENG CHANG pig feed maturing technology seminar and Entrepreneur Sodality of Anhui Feed association in north Anhui", sponsored by ZHENG CHANG, Anhui feed and health breeding industry association and Anhui Jinmu feed company, had a magnificent opening in Fuyang, Anhui.Mr. Xin Zhang,...

At VIV China, Meyn presents 15,000 bph solutions which lead to lower cost per bird and therefore increases profitability. For Chinese poultry processors the future looks bright. In the first place because the consumption per capita of poultry meat has increased. And secondly because it is likely that...

SOMMEN is web-based operating systems provider which enables the sharing of data with external systems in the areas of climate control, feed and farm management.Erwin Sommen, founder and owner of SOMMEN explains why their systems facilitate easy access through smart phones or tablets and how data sharing...

10 new broiler houses in Hungary are made with the latest technology to reduce the impact on the environment and to improve production and the well-being of the animals. This modern, innovative and advanced approach has led to this company becoming one of #McDonalds' Flagship Farms. All houses...

"Co-creation" is a term defined by Albert Hoekerswever, founder of Kip van Oranje as, a new form of supply-chain strategy in which a process is devised collectively by producers with their suppliers, distributor and customers to achieve an outcome of value to all the parties. Albert shares with us here...

Manage the right feed quantity on the right time for your parent stock. By regulating the feed quantity and the feed composition for cocks and hens separately, a poultry farmer can bring his animals in an optimal condition, thus achieving a maximum number of hatching eggs and a high fertilization percentage.

With the increasing improvement of residents' income level and consumption expenditure, the demand for high quality products in the Chinese market has increased dramatically. Especially in recent years, Chinese consumers pay more and more attention to food safety.As far as pork is concerned, it is a...