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NEW TRENDS IN DISEASE MANAGEMENT AND NUTRITION

Broiler Health features the latest ideas and practices for raising healthier broilers and broiler-breeders. In response to feedback from our readers, we recently expanded the format to include new features and more in-depth articles in about the challenges facing US producers. For information about a print subscription to this magazine, click here.

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Issue 7

Cover story
At Pilgrim's, keeping coccidiosis in check is yielding healthier, more efficient broilers
Maintaining optimum gut health and feed conversion is important for any poultry operation, but it's particularly critical when growing birds to 8 pounds. Field operations manager John Haas talks about his experiences developing a more sustainable approach to coccidiosis control.

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Better early than later
Research by a poultry nutritionist at Oklahoma State University has shown that if birds are going to be challenged by coccidiosis, the economic impact of that challenge is far greater in older birds, when birds are consuming large volumes of feed.

On the road to sustainability
Driving poultry producers toward lasting and sustainable coccidiosis control is the goal of a three-step program developed by poultry veterinarians at Merck Animal Health.

Health check
ILT protection improved with HVT vaccine
Adding protein to starter helps vaccinated birds
S. typhimurium linked to necrotic enteritis
Probiotic 'significantly' reduces salmonella

Talking points
Coccidiosis vaccination: Making a good thing even better
Two veterinarians with expertise in coccidiosis team up to share their latest ideas and strategies for managing the disease more effectively and profitably.

Expertise
Choose battles wisely when using a recombinant
Recombinant technology has brought more convenience and safety to poultry health programs, but using two different vaccines made with the turkey herpesvirus could hurt performance. Which disease should you target with a recombinant?

Center stage
Novel European approach to IB control explored for US broilers
University of Georgia's Mark Jackwo od, PhD, went to Europe to see what leading poultry disease specialists there are doing to achieve better control of infectious bronchitis variants. Now he's successfully applying these concepts to US operations.

Milestones
New coccidiosis vaccine for broiler breeders, layers
Scientist identifies new Eimeria species

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