This chapter will cover the general practice of poultry gut health maintenance from a poultry nutritionist standpoint. Gut health begins at the hatchery and it is important to maintain good husbandry and biosecurity from this point onwards. There are several strategies to promote good gut health in ...

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR), which occurs when previously susceptible bacteria become resistant to the drug(s) used to treat them, is a major global threat to animals, ecosystems and human health. With rising rates of AMR greatly outpacing the development of new antibiotics and antimicrobial...

Dr Anne Richmond has worked in Moy Park for 8 years and has over 30 years' experience working with poultry due to growing up on a poultry farm in Northern Ireland. She has a BSc (Hons) in Biology and PhD in Sustainable Agriculture with her thesis entitled 'An investigation of methane emissions from ...

Zoonotic diseases are a multifaceted beast whether bacterial, viral or fungal; they spread to people through contact with animals carrying the pathogen. An estimated 60% of human infections and at least 75% of emerging diseases are zoonotic. The World Health Organization and the World Organisation...

The European Union (EU) has been driving changes in global food chain legislation over the last 50 years, notably since 2000, the so-called 'Brussels Effect'. The process started modestly in 1970, with the publication of an EU feed additive list, in which many entries were 'copy-pastes' from food...

Providing it is implemented correctly, any single scientifc study provides information that hopefully supports or refutes a hypothesis being tested. Multiple studies in a subject area often deliver a range of responses and hence consensus is often hard to achieve. The equivocal nature of the...

The global demand for poultry meat and eggs continues to grow and the industry is expected to expand at a rapid pace. Infectious diseases are responsible for signifcant economic losses in the poultry industry and have implications with regards to welfare and economics. Furthermore, a number of...

To maintain and improve the long-term effcacy of antibiotics for both human and animal health, a global approach to responsible antibiotic stewardship requires targeted reduction in the use of all types of antibiotics in human medicine, food production and farming. This chapter describes practical...

Poor intestinal health is one of the most important issues in the poultry industry of the last two decades. 'Overfeeding' with highly nutrient dense diets is the main trigger of these intestinal health issues, together with coccidiosis and some other common gut pathogens. All these pathologic...

Arabinose substituted xylo-oligosaccharides (AXOS) and non-substituted xylooligosaccharides (XOS) are produced by hydrolytic degradation of arabinoxylans and xylans by endo-xylanases. These XOS are defned as prebiotics, based on their positive infuence on the composition and activity of...