Poultry Abstracts

CAB Direct (CABI's own platform)

Breeding and production

All aspects of poultry breeding, husbandry, rearing and production are covered, including

• • • - assessment of nutritive value of feedstuffs and their digestibility
    - breed evaluations
  • - egg production and quality
  - general nutrition
• • - feed formulations
  • - feeding methods
  - feeding requirements
• • - genetic engineering
  - growth and development
• • - genetics, reproduction and embryology including animal breeding methods
  - meat production
• - molecular genetics

Diseases and health

All aspects of poultry health and diseases are covered, including

• • - anatomy
  - bacteria such as Escherichia, Salmonella and Mycoplasma
• • - biochemistry
• • • - immunology
    - nutritional and metabolic disorders
  - parasites
• - pharmacology
• - physiology
• • • - toxicology
    - viral diseases such as Newcastle disease, infectious bronchitis and Marek's disease

Economics

All aspects of economics involved in poultry production, including

• • - economic policy
• • • - management of poultry businesses
    - products, including rural and developing country production
• - supply and demand and price trends for poultry production
• - veterinary and health economics

Housing and equipment

All aspects of housing and equipment, including

• • • - cages and floor systems
    - climate and pollution control
  • - ergonomics
  • - incubators
  - legislation and regulations
• - litter
• • - slaughter and processing machinery
  - ventilation

Poultry products

A wide area of coverage, including

• • - freezing and cooking
• - post-abattoir processing and manufacture
• • - risks for human consumption of poultry meat and eggs

Poultry wastes

Covering aspects of wastes and effluents produced by poultry and by industrial processing of poultry products, including

• • - abattoir wastes
• • - food processing wastes
  - manures
• - slurries
• - waste disposal

Other aspects

Recently published conferences, annual reports and books on any aspect of poultry production are included. Plus, papers on miscellaneous aspects such as

• - ecology and monitoring of wild avian species closely related to those commonly regarded as major poultry species
• • - wild game population control

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    Welfare and behaviour

    Covering all areas, including

    • • - communication and learning
      • - feeding behaviour
      - reproductive behaviour
    • - legislation and control
    • • • - provision of enrichment for poultry
        - stress-related behaviour in different environments

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