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A carne de frango ganhou destaque no cenário nacional de carnes

Com demandas interna e externa aquecidas, preço da carne de frango bate recorde no ano de 2021 Impulsionados pelas aquecidas demandas externa e, principalmente, interna, os preços da carne de frango atingiram recordes reais em 2021. Diante do menor poder de compra de grande parte da população brasileira, a proteína de origem avícola – que é tipicamente negociada a valores inferiores aos das…

A unidade brasileira da Aviagen® obteve o certificado de compartimentação para suas unidades de produção nos estados de São Paulo e Minas Gerais.

A entrega da certificação oficial foi feita pela Ministra da Agricultura, Tereza Cristina Corrêa da Costa Dias), durante uma cerimônia promovida em Brasília (DF), no dia 02 de dezembro.

A compartimentação permite o envio de material genético, avós…

Aviagen continua em dinâmica expansão pela América Latina

Grupo adquiriu o controle acionário da empresa Avícola Colombiana (Avicol)

Em 10 de Julho, o Grupo Aviagen® assinou um acordo e adquiriu o controle acionário da empresa Avícola Colombiana (Avicol), distribuidor Ross® na Colômbia. Sob o acordo, o Grupo Aviagen terá o controle administrativo. 

Antes do acordo, a Avicol produzia aves para frangos de corte e postura no mercado colombiano.…

Joint venture com Grupo Rocío resulta em uma nova empresa: Aviagen Peru

Histórica joint venture dá início à primeira grande presença da Aviagen na América Latina fora do Brasil, ampliando a expansão latino-americana da empresa

O Grupo Aviagen® e o Grupo Rocío assinaram na segunda-feira, 08/04, um acordo estratégico para uma joint venture. No acordo, a Avícola del Norte (Avinor), uma empresa do Grupo Rocío, torna-se uma subsidiária da Aviagen sob o nome Aviagen…

Líderes avícolas se reúnem em Lisboa para o Aviagen Business Conference – América Latina (ABC-LA)

Diretores, proprietários e gerentes de empresas avícolas da América Latina exploram o tema “O Caminho para 2030 e Além”.

A Aviagen® está se preparando para a realização de seu tradicional evento “Aviagen Business Conference – América Latina” (ABC-LA), com início hoje e término em 14 de Setembro em Lisboa, Portugal. Cerca de 160 clientes, incluindo diretores, proprietários e gerentes de empresas…

New Post has been published on http://www.therakyatpost.com/features/2014/07/09/rooster-fertility-problem-hits-us-chicken-supply

Rooster fertility problem hits US chicken supply

THE world’s largest chicken breeder has discovered that a key breed of rooster has a genetic issue that is reducing its fertility, adding to problems constraining US poultry production and raising prices at a time when beef and pork prices are already at record highs.

The breed, Aviagen Group’s standard Ross male, is sire through its offspring to as much as 25% of the nation’s chickens raised for slaughter, said Aviagen spokeswoman Marla Robinson.

Sanderson Farms, the third-largest US poultry producer and one of Aviagen’s largest customers, said it and Aviagen systematically ruled out other possible causes for a decline in fertility before determining that a genetic issue was at the root of the problem.

The issue is hitting an industry that is already suffering from a short supply of breeder birds.

The US Agriculture Department last month reduced its US chicken production forecast for 2014, predicting only a 1% increase in poundage from 2013, well below the long-run annual average of 4%. The agency predicted 2015 production would be up only 2.6%.

The limited growth in output is occurring as foreign demand for US chicken is on the rise. US exports of poultry for meat are projected to reach 3.4 million tons in 2014, up from 3.1 million last year.

Sensitive bird 

Aviagen, owned privately by EW Group of Germany, provides breeding stock — hens and roosters — to Sanderson and other chicken producers, which then breed the birds and hatch their eggs to produce meat.

Sanderson last summer first identified an unusual reduction in chick output involving the Ross breed.

Mike Cockrell, Sanderson’s chief financial officer, said about 17% of eggs laid by Aviagen hens mated with the rooster breed failed to hatch. Typically, the failure rate is about 15%, he said.

Sanderson gradually eliminated a number of other potential factors, including the temperature in hatcheries and the source of corn fed to the birds, Cockrell said.

Aviagen sent a team of scientists to Sanderson last autumn to study the issue and has acknowledged that an undisclosed change it made to the breed’s genetics made the birds “very sensitive” to being overfed, he said.

“We fed him too much. He got fat. When he got big, he did not breed as much as he was intended to,” Cockrell said about the breed of rooster. “The fertilisation went way down, and our hatch has been way down.”

Aviagen regularly tweaks genetics in birds to improve them, Cockrell added.

Aviagen declined comment on changes to the rooster’s genetics.

The chicken breeding company has replaced the breed suffering from fertility issues with a new breed, and is mating it with the same type of hens. It is too early to provide accurate projections for their productivity, but “results to date are favourable,” Robinson said.