USDA soy estimates take market by surprise
US grain stocks details offer different pictures for corn and soybeans, says economist. Source: USDA soy estimates take market by surprise
Nutrition 101
Humans have over 10,000 taste buds, chickens 20-30. As a poultry nutritionist I do not worry that the chickens will not like the taste of the feed, I worry that because the only feed they get is from the recipes I make that the feed meets all their nutritional needs. As in humans, chickens require energy, protein, vitamins, and […]
Why are chickens bigger and why do they grow faster now than 50 years ago?
So you are on a family vacation across the border into the United States and you want to buy some chicken for dinner. You go into a grocery store and look for the chicken and notice it is seems bigger than our chicken in Canada and it is yellow. Why the difference? If you are from Ontario the color […]
Antibiotic Use in Chicken Production
Chickens are vulnerable to two particular infections, necrotic enteritis which is caused by clostridia and coccidiosis which is caused by a protozoa (think of bugs so small they cannot be seen without a microscope). A chicken is always affected to some degree by these two organisms and if the infection is severe both diseases result in high mortality. We […]
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USDA soy estimates take market by surprise
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Why are chickens bigger and why do they grow faster now than 50 years ago?
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Antibiotic Use in Chicken Production
Chickens are vulnerable to two particular infections, necrotic enteritis which…