Husbandry

Hops contain substances that control pathogenic bacteria in the intestines of chickens, Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists are reporting.
Certain bacteria in the intestines of chickens not only can cause contamination of meat during processing, but also may pose major production losses by causing disease in the broiler chicken.
Currently, poultry producers use sub-therapeutic amounts of antibiotics [...]

Dermatitis in humans can make skin itch and burn. When it hits chickens, it drastically reduces farmers’ profits and cuts the supply of an Asian delicacy – chicken feet. It also leads to an estimated loss of about $100 million for the Georgia poultry industry each year.
In the last decade or so, chicken paws have [...]

Dairy is “greening” with improved efficiency in the production of milk and reductions in the industry’s carbon footprint, according to University of Illinois Extension dairy specialist Mike Hutjens.
“Using 1944 as the base year of comparison–and also the year of the largest number of dairy cows in the United States, the number of dairy cows has [...]