March 26, 2015
As members of the North American Gamebird Association, we must be watchful of the resurgence of high-path Avian Influenza on the North American continent....
January 27, 2015
Funding was included in the 2014 Farm Bill to determine the feasibility of insuring poultry producers for a catastrophic disease event....
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September 25, 2014
Some recent information exists on the nutrient requirements of pheasant, quail, and partridge; however, there is a tendency to rely on information for the turkey. A challenge exists in designing game bird diets since birds can be reared for commercial meat production or for hunting preserves. Birds grown for release are not required to grow at the maximum rate, and in many cases achieving a high rate of gain would be detrimental to flight ability....
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April 17, 2013
The difference between good management is the difference between a profit and loss. Over 80 percent of all the health problems brought to diagnostic laboratories could have been prevented by paying closer attention to sound basic principles of management and small daily details. It is far cheaper to prevent diseases than it is to treat them....
April 04, 2013
With gapeworm a perennial problem, most producers of game birds are well aware of the need to worm on a routine basis. But sometimes that routine is nowhere near frequent enough....
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March 20, 2013
TheUS Department of Agriculture Animal & Plant Health Inspection Service coordinates the NPIP program to coordinate State programs aimed at eliminating pullorum from commercial poultry....
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October 10, 2012
The 41st Biennial NPIP Conference was held in New Orleans on Sept. 25-27. Attendees from NAGA were Ben Lawton of MacFarlane Pheasants in Wisconsin, Gary Williamson of Red Oak Wild Bird Farm in Minnesota, John Metzer of Metzer Farms in California and Sonny Hairston, NAGA president and owner of Little Canyon Shooting in Idaho....
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September 26, 2012
As we head into the winter months, here are some important items to put on your to-do checklist for your brooder pens....
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