Sentence examples for laying flocks from inspiring English sources

Laying house, in animal husbandry, a building or enclosure for maintaining laying flocks of domestic fowl, usually chickens, containing nests, lighting, roosting space, waterers, and feed troughs.

Alongside legislation was a voluntary, industry-led vaccination scheme that began in broiler-breeder flocks in 1994 and in laying flocks in 1998 [ 16].

Surveys of laying flocks in Europe have indicated that about 30% of the birds experience one or more bone fractures due to osteoporosis during their lifetime.

S. Enteritidis PT 4 has also been isolated from eggs and the farm environment of laying flocks implicated as sources for human outbreaks (25 ).

A remarkable decline in nontyphoidal salmonellosis in the United Kingdom since the late 1990s coincides closely with the introduction of voluntary vaccination programs in broiler-breeder and laying flocks, demonstrating the success of this concerted, industry-led public health action.

Outbreaks among egg-laying chickens have also been reported in the mining area of Karnataka, India [ 18], and excessive losses from MD have recently been reported in adult laying flocks over the age of 40 weeks in Japan [ 19].

This spring they intend to triple their laying flock, adding a few lambs and sheep as their "lead herbivore to mow the grass for the chickens," and expand their line of spice rubs and dredging flour for frying.

Even though the general ratio of males to females is 50 50, you may be unlucky and hatch 7 males out of 8 eggs, which does not make for much of a laying flock.[1].

In domestic chickens, moulting is artificially induced by feed withdrawal to recycle the old laying flock for best profit margins.

Enteritidis vaccination and flock hygiene program aimed at laying chicken flocks (22 ).

This MDR phenotype has also been isolated from laying hen flocks in Algeria [ 13].