Ten years ago, the occurrence of macroscopic defects in breasts muscles from fast‐growing
broilers challenged producers and animal scientists to label and characterize myopathies …

Heat stress (HS) compromises the yield and quality of poultry products and endangers the
sustainability of the poultry industry. Despite being homeothermic, chickens, especially fast …

The growing human population, changing dietary habits and intensifying competition
between food and feed production underline the urgent need to explore novel sustainable …

The poultry industry has benefited greatly from advances in genetics, nutrition, housing and
management strategies. Geneticists have made welfare and health traits important …

Broilers have been bred for fast growth which has led to welfare problems such as high
mortality, lameness and skin lesions. Slower growing breeds are thought to have better …

Over the past several decades, as a result of the increasing growth rate and body size of
modern hybrid birds, poultry industry has been facing up the occurrence of many breast …

Broiler chicken production is expected to increase significantly in the next decades to satisfy
the poultry meat demand of a growing world population. In this scenario, one of the most …

Dietary inclusion of probiotic Bacillus spp. beneficially affect the broiler chickens by
balancing the properties of the indigenous microbiota causing better growth performance …

Much of the protein in the diets of European livestock is sourced from imported soybeans
produced in the Americas. This protein deficit in livestock production presents a risk to …

The production and consumption of poultry meat increases in Finland, but no updated
information on the impact of broiler production on climate change has been available, and …