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Occurrence and Multidrug Resistance of Campylobacter in Chicken Meat from Different Production Systems

open access: yesFoods, 2022
Campylobacter is the leading bacterial cause of diarrheal disease worldwide and poultry remains the primary vehicle of its transmission to humans.
Nânci Santos-Ferreira   +2 more
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Examination of the impact of range, cage-free, modified systems, and conventional cage environments on the labor inputs committed to bird care for three brown egg layer strains

open access: yesJournal of Applied Poultry Research, 2021
Summary: Although the poultry industry has developed into an intensive management system over the past several decades, current trends are moving toward extensive systems with decreased hen-stocking density.
Kelly E. Brannan, Kenneth E. Anderson
doaj   +1 more source

Toxoplasmosis in a Free-ranging Mink [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Wildlife Diseases, 2006
A free-ranging mink (Mustela vison), estimated to be 3 mo old, was found on the campus of Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan; it exhibited clinical signs of left hind limb lameness, ataxia, head tremors, and bilateral blindness. Histologically, the animal had a mild, nonsuppurative meningoencephalitis and severe chorioretinitis with ...
Yava L, Jones   +5 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Evaluation of Physical Egg Quality Parameters of Commercial Brown Laying Hens Housed in Five Production Systems

open access: yesAnimals, 2023
This study evaluates the effect of housing environment on the egg quality characteristics of brown egg layers as many different environments are currently used in the industry.
Benjamin N. Alig   +2 more
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Visual access to an outdoor range early in life, but not environmental complexity, increases meat chicken ranging behavior

open access: yesPoultry Science, 2023
: Not all chickens access an outdoor range when the opportunity is provided. This may be related to the abrupt change in environments from the stable rearing conditions to the complexity of the outdoor range.
P.S. Taylor   +6 more
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Free-Range Eggs? [PDF]

open access: yesScience, 2007
Human eggs are in short supply, but much in demand. Many infertile women need donated eggs if they are to bear children. Researchers need eggs for somatic-cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) to try to develop stem cell lines. If SCNT-derived stem cells could be made from patients suffering from devastating conditions such as motor neuron disease, they could ...
openaire   +2 more sources

The Free Range [PDF]

open access: yesMechanical Engineering, 2006
This article discusses various aspects of open-source product development. The open-source business definition is the development of a product using components that are not restricted in their use by others. Open source is still novel in the world of mechanical engineering.
openaire   +1 more source

Does the environmental background (intensive v. outdoor systems) influence the behaviour of piglets at weaning?

open access: yesAnimal, 2015
Under intensive pig husbandry, outdoor systems offer a more complex physical and social environment compared with indoor systems (farrowing sheds). As the rearing environment affects behavioural development, it can, therefore, influence behavioural ...
Y.Y.W. Lau, J.R. Pluske, P.A. Fleming
doaj   +1 more source

Antimicrobial Usage in Commercial and Domestic Poultry Farming in Two Communities in the Ashanti Region of Ghana

open access: yesAntibiotics, 2021
Poultry farming is a common practice in Ghana. Antibiotics are used, particularly in commercial poultry farming, as growth promoters and to prevent and cure infections.
Ellis Kobina Paintsil   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

Effect of Feed Additives on Productivity and Campylobacter spp. Loads in Broilers Reared under Free Range Conditions

open access: yesFrontiers in Microbiology, 2017
The poultry reservoir, especially broiler meat, is generally recognized as one of the most-important sources for human Campylobacteriosis. The measures to control Campylobacter targeted essentially the primary production level.
Muriel Guyard-Nicodème   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

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