News tagged with free range chickens
Free-range chickens are more prone to disease
Chickens kept in litter-based housing systems, including free-range chickens, are more prone to disease than chickens kept in cages, according to a study published in BioMed Central's open access journal Acta Veterinaria Sc ...
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Verandas and eggshell examination could improve hen welfare
The report by academics at the University of Bristol's School of Veterinary Sciences, funded by the Morrisons Farming Programme, examined health challenges facing the modern free-range laying hen and identified ...
Jan 19, 2012 |
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High-tech gadgets offer plenty for gifts
Every year gadgets and their accessories are the hot gifts to give and get.
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Dec 08, 2011 |
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Research uncovers what increases chicken wellbeing
Researchers from the University of Bristol's School of Veterinary Sciences have concluded that the wellbeing of barn chickens is increased if they have activity objects, perches and other stimulation.
Oct 04, 2011 |
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Miracle material: Graphene
(PhysOrg.com) -- In the 19th century novel, Flatland, by Edward A. Abbott, residents of that fictional country exist in only two dimensions. Women are born as line segments, while men come in a range of geometric ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
May 19, 2011 |
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Omega acids could reduce bone breakage in laying hens
(PhysOrg.com) -- A study has found that adding the right combination of fatty acids to the diets of laying hens can significantly reduce bone breakage during lay. The research could provide a potentially significant route ...
Apr 05, 2011 |
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Avian flu vaccine on the brink
A collaboration between BBSRC and STFC-funded scientists has been using a new form of low energy microscopy to observe how poxviruses interact with components inside live cells. Genetically modified fowlpox ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jan 10, 2011 |
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Autism-vaccine study was 'fraud' says journal (Update)
A 1998 study that linked childhood autism to a vaccine was branded an "elaborate fraud" by the British Medical Journal (BMJ) Thursday, but its lead author said he was the victim of a smear campaign by drug manufacturers. ...
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Jan 05, 2011 |
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Pelletized manure reduces toxic runoff
There is considerable amount of uncertainty concerning the environmental impacts that animal hormones have on surface water. Higher concentrations of hormones in waterways have been found to cause physiological and sexual ...
Nov 17, 2010 |
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No longer pandemic, H1N1 flu still hangs on in new flu season
With frantic efforts to gird for the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic still etched on the public mind, some health officials have been gearing up weeks earlier than usual to do battle with the 2010 flu season.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Oct 08, 2010 |
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Arsenic in field runoff linked to poultry litter
Fields amended with poultry litter can accumulate significant levels of arsenic, according to studies by USDA-Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists and associates. These findings provide key information about the ...
Aug 16, 2010 |
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