Dr. Carlos Cuenca - 23/06/2010

Antioxidants, Feeding, Preservatives

For several years animal feed additives have been used, both to improve yields and to allow the use of raw materials, in reasonable quantities to promote good digestion.   This has obliged to several governments and economic areas to classify...

Dr. Jaime Borrell Valls - 21/06/2010

Pharmacology, Poultry Farming

Nowadays, poultry companies have become a producer industry on a large scale. The poultry industrialization makes necessary the systematization of all its own aspects of the industry. Once this reality has been assumed, the designer of every single...

Dr. Jaime Borrell Valls - 18/06/2010

Pathology, Poultry Farming

The color of the eggshell depends on several pigments, and especially on ovoporphyrins (avian protoporphyrins). Protoporphyrins are waste products obtained from the recycling of haemoglobin and its deposit on its eggshell increases for the following...

Dr. Jaime Borrell Valls - 16/06/2010

Pathology, Swine

From the first descriptions, by Ligniers and Spitzen 1902 and the later fixation by Brumpt in 1910 to nowadays, several microorganisms have been included and excluded to the Actinobacillus type.A. mallei was traspased to Pseudomona mallei,while...

Dr. Jaime Borrell Valls - 24/05/2010

Mycotoxins, Pathology, Poultry Farming

Sometimes, mouth injuries in birds (presents in tongue and beak) create confusion before giving clinical diagnostic. In these cases, it is important to follow the next criteria: in poultry farming, injuries are never isolated. They always must...

Dra. Sara Borrell - 24/05/2010

Aquaculture

In the existing Neolithic civilizations, they passed from fruit, seed and root harvest to agriculture and from hunting and nomadic life to settlement of villages and animal domestication, known as ranching or stockbreeding. In the existing...