... Pathways to protection: How one vaccine decision can affect options for managing other diseases in broilers
Apr 22, 2021PHT Editor
Broiler operations want to provide the best disease protection for the least cost, but deciding which vaccines to use and when can be a daunting task.
... Tips for ensuring best field vaccination results with Poulvac® ST or Poulvac® E. coli
Sep 12, 2019Susan Spiegel
TOOLBOX, Issue 12: An interview with Lloyd Keck, DVM, ACPV, consulting veterinarian, on ensuring the best field vaccination results against Salmonella and E. coli.
... Live-production management practices that help contain Salmonella
Jul 15, 2019Susan Spiegel
Avoidance of wet litter and well-timed feed withdrawal are two of several management steps that will help control the load of Salmonella going into the processing plant.
... Special report: Poultry veterinarians teaming up to reduce condemnations, optimize food safety
Sep 18, 2018Susan Spiegel
Minimizing carcass condemnations and reducing the load of foodborne pathogens moving from broiler farms into processing might seem like separate production objectives — and they are.
... Reducing food-borne bacterial infections must be team effort
Jul 25, 2017Susan Spiegel
Increased pressure to reduce bacterial food-borne infections in consumers is affecting poultry production from start to finish, panelists reported at a food safety roundtable, “Lightening the Load:...
... Teaming with poultry companies to ensure carcass quality and food safety
Jun 08, 2017Susan Spiegel
The role of today’s technical services veterinarian needs to go beyond posting sessions, field trials, product support and customized disease-management programs.
... Exploring the cause of condemnations can reduce losses
Jan 25, 2017PHT Editor
When carcasses are rejected at processing, all the time and money that went into production is lost. Couple that with even slight increases in the condemnation rate, and the losses really mount.
... More diagnostics advised for better IB management in broilers
Jan 23, 2017PHT Editor
By Lloyd Keck, DVM, ACPV
Senior technical services veterinarian, Zoetis Inc.
... Editorial – Judicious antibiotic use: How should the poultry industry be judged?
Apr 27, 2016PHT Editor
Beginning in January 2017, FDA will require veterinarians to issue a veterinary feed directive, or VFD, for any medically important antibiotics administered through poultry or livestock feed.
Announcements, Antibiotic-free, Flock welfare, Food Safety, Gut Health, Infectious Diseases, ippe2016 - Highlights from our latest issue, Mobile Only, News, PHT GLOBAL, PHT US
... Specialists explore new options for managing flock health while defending judicious antibiotic use
Mar 27, 2016PHT Editor
Growing demand for poultry raised without food-animal antibiotics has put more pressure on veterinarians to find alternative yet dependable disease-control options, according to a panel of nine...
... Free 2015 AAAP Proceedings Booklet
Jan 21, 2016PHT Editor
Pressures to reduce or eliminate antibiotics from poultry production have created new health and welfare challenges for chickens and turkeys. In this lively roundtable discussion, poultry industry...
... Three more broiler diseases you can manage with vaccination
Nov 11, 2015PHT Editor
There's more to poultry health than Marek's, IBD, ILT and ND. Vaccines also play major roles in curbing these common diseases.
