Top Issues for the BC Poultry Sector
Note that these issues are in no particular order. The list highlights the priority areas for poultryresearch and development investment.
- Alternative energy and climate change
- Composting
- Manure
- Options for mortality (Digester vs incinerator)
- Windrowing litter (piling up in rows to aid composting) in the barn between flocks.
- Manure and litter management
- Markets
- Alternative uses (reuse) for manure
- Bedding
- Pest control
- Darkling beetles and flies (the effects of larvacides)
- rodents
- Production - barns
- Lighting – how can lighting (LED and other) benefit bird health and performance
- CO2 – levels, humidity for ultimate conditions
- Dust control
- Poor air quality in the winter - too much dust in the air during winter months
- Dust on the loading out of manure
- Disinfection – effectiveness and quality
- Production - birds
- fatty liver
- eggs – heat vs age
- chicks – hatchery environment, disease
- chick quality
- Welfare
- Catching
- Cage issue and how it relates to sustainability
- Biosecurity
- Antimicrobial use / alternatives to antibiotics
- Public Trust
