The BroilerNet project involves a bottom-up approach to identify challenges and innovation needs for broiler farmers in Europe, and to collect promising and already successfully implemented Good Practices to meet the challenges in questions. The top Good Practices selected by experts within the three thematic areas (animal health management, animal welfare and sustainability) have been summarized in factsheets. Many types of infections can challenge modern broiler farms. Avian Influenza virus is a major threat for most European farms. Prompting farmers to an early communication to the vets practice can greatly reduce the spread of Avian Influenza and many other transmissible viruses or bacteria. In some cases deviations in feed and water consumption or bird movement might be an early sign of a developing infection. During training or communication farmers are systematically encouraged to communicate immediately upon possible symptoms that might indicate upcoming flock illness.
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This factsheet explains how bringing a team of farmer, vet, feed and farm advisors together is sharing different sources of knowledge together, making the Multi Actor Farm Health approach an effective approach to improve biosecurity on poultry farms
An infographic providing a compact overview on Polish company approach to recycle organic waste and by-products.
This factsheet presents the biosecurity audit tool Biocheck Ugent, that can give a biosecurity scoring in poultry farms to measure biosecurity level.