Help for Cage Layer Fatigue

We’ve all heard the old adage: “you are what you eat.” The same goes for the millions of cage layers in Dutchland’s service area. Stress combined with insufficient dietary calcium can lead to several issues, including Cage Layer Fatigue (CLF). CLF is a syndrome...

Poultry Performance Tips

Feed conversion, the ratio of feed consumed to a meat bird’s market weight, is an important measure of efficiency for any poultry producer. Anything a producer can do to improve feed efficiency will improve the profitability of the entire flock. Use the equations...

Chicken Genome Unveiled

In early March 2004, an international research team released a draft of the first bird genome to be sequenced. It comes from the Jungle Fowl (Gallus gallus), native to Southeast Asia, and the ancestor of the world’s domesticated chicken flocks. According to Richard...

What is Newcastle Disease?

Newcastle is a disease that we vaccinate for and rarely see clinically in the field in the Northeast. We vaccinate for Newcastle with a live aerosol spray at 14 days, 32 days, and again at 9 weeks. We also use a killed vaccine that has Newcastle in it that is injected...