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Comparing the profitability of organic and conventional broiler production

open access: yesBrazilian Journal of Poultry Science, 2014
Recently, organic broiler chicken production has received more attention worldwide. This study has carried out an economic analysis to compare the profitability of organic versus conventional growing systems per unit of broiler meat production.
F Cobanoglu   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Assessing the Market for Poultry Litter in Georgia: Are Subsidies Needed to Protect Water Quality? [PDF]

open access: yes
Concerns about nutrient loads into our waters have focused attention on poultry litter applications. Like many states with a large poultry industry, Georgia recently designed a subsidy program to facilitate the transportation of poultry litter out of ...
Bekchanov, Ulugbek   +6 more
core   +1 more source

The Legislation for Providing Animal Access in Australian Residential Aged Care: It's Not a Zoo

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Providing meaningful animal contact to residential aged care facility (RACF) residents is problematic due to a lack of animal policies and National Guidelines. This paper examines how Australian Legislation could influence access to animal contact in RACFs and aims to answer the question, ‘Could current Legislation facilitate the development ...
Wendy Newton   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Research Note: Carcass yield and meat quality in high- and low-water efficient broiler lines exposed to heat stress

open access: yesPoultry Science
: Heat stress (HS) and water scarcity are significant challenges to sustainable poultry production worldwide. It is, therefore, critical to identify effective strategies to prevent, withstand, or adapt to these challenges.
Sara Orlowski   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Tetracycline Resistance Genes in Campylobacter jejuni and C. coli Isolated From Poultry Carcasses [PDF]

open access: hybrid, 2014
Bahman Abdi‐Hachesoo   +5 more
openalex   +1 more source

Adherence to the Mediterranean and Mediterranean‐Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension Intervention for Neurodegenerative Delay (MIND) Diets and Parkinson's Disease Incidence in Women: Results from the Prospective E3N Cohort

open access: yesAnnals of Neurology, EarlyView.
Objective The evidence regarding adherence to dietary patterns and Parkinson's disease (PD) risk is inconsistent. Because of the long prodromal PD phase, reverse causation represents a major threat to investigations of diet in relation to PD. We examined whether adherence to the Mediterranean (MED) and Mediterranean‐Dietary Approaches to Stop ...
Mariem Hajji‐Louati   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Elucidation of the genetic determination of body weight and size in Chinese local chicken breeds by large-scale genomic analyses

open access: yesBMC Genomics
Background Body weight and size are important economic traits in chickens. While many growth-related quantitative trait loci (QTLs) and candidate genes have been identified, further research is needed to confirm and characterize these findings.
Jie Wang   +11 more
doaj   +1 more source

Arsenic in Poultry Litter: Organic Regulations [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
Most of the arsenic used as an antibiotic in commercial broiler production ends up in the litter. Using this litter as a soil amendment is not prohibited by the National Organic Program, but 7CFR S205.203(c) of the Rule requires that "the producer must ...
Barbara C. Bellows
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