Nov 27, 2018 | Farm Management, Poultry Diseases
What You Need to Know about NPIP and Indemnity Going forward per USDA, farms enrolled in NPIP with a capacity of 75,000 or more birds at one time must have a biosecurity plan and audit following the NPIP Program Standards 14-point Biosecurity Principles Audit...
Apr 14, 2016 | Farm Management, Poultry Diseases
Eric Gingerich, D.V.M. Technical Service Specialist, Poultry Since I wrote an article on this subject for The Wenger Group in 2008, a lot has changed in the prevalence and control of this disease. Colibacillosis or Escherichia coli (E. coli) infections in egg-type...
Mar 31, 2016 | Farm Management, Poultry Diseases
A new outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) confirmed in a commercial turkey farm in Indiana in January 2016 should serve as a warning to all livestock producers to remain vigilant with regard to their biosecurity procedures. In the near future, a sound...
Mar 31, 2016 | Farm Management, Poultry Diseases
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...
