Poultry CRC An Australian PhD student has overturned 30 years of scientific dogma by eliminating the prime suspectbelieved to cause a common gut disease in chickens that costs the global poultry industries an estimated US$2 billion a year. Working on a research project funded by the Australian Poultry Cooperative Research Centre (Poultry CRC), Monash University PhD student, Anthony Keyburn, has now opened the way for more research to identify the real culprit behind necrotic enteritis, the...

The award is presented to a public servant of an agency or of an organization for outstanding achievement and service on behalf of the poultry industry. Recipients are honored for their contributions of time and services to the poultry industry and for participation in civic work and other community activities. He has also been active in examinations of commercial chickens, writing more than 600 pathology reports on broiler cases in 2005, of which 473 were from Delmarva poultry companies....

Dhaka - Bangladesh has culled about 25 000 more chickens over the past four days as bird flu spread to eight additional farms, officials said on Tuesday. CS Karim, adviser to the interim government and head of the fisheries and livestock ministry said on Monday all affected farms would be given money to restart their businesses. He said efforts by veterinary and health officials had prevented bird flu spreading through all of the country's 64 districts. Indian authorities were testing dead...

MORRISTOWN - Atlantic Health security and medical professionals will meet with businesses and organizations on Tuesday to discuss preparations for pandemic flu outbreaks, bomb threats and other events. Seminar addresses disaster planning Atlantic Health personnel seek to build partnerships to deal with bomb threat, flu outbreak. Schwarz-Miller will discuss how to prepare for a pandemic outbreak of influenza, SARS and bioterrorism attacks, including general information about avian flu and...

There are two forms of avian influenza - low and high pathogenic. The Webbs have a mix of pet and breeder birds: two geese, Gloria Swanson and Henri; three Umbrella Cockatoos, Nikki, Big Bird and Wild Thing; a Moluccan Cockatoo, Saffron; a Bluefront Amazon parrot, Pepper; three Mexican Red Headed parrots; two African Gray parrots; two Red Lored parrots; two Yellow Head parrots and two Muscovy ducks. If you put your pet bird outside, even in a cage, you should have a double enclosure to...