Shakeela Farooq, chief scientific officer for poultry research at the Bangladesh Livestock Research Institute, said her calculations showed that the cost of production for one chick could be as high as 35 taka. However, the actual price was Rs 15 on January 19 and reached Rs 60 in February. Shahidur believes that companies make extra […]
crossing borders Stollknecht said high levels of the virus in birds such as blue-winged teal, ducks that migrate long distances, helped spread the virus to new parts of South America. Countries including Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia have reported cases in recent months. Ecuador imposed a three-month animal-health emergency on November 29, two days after its […]
He said that along with bones, liver and kidney, the level of antibiotics and lead in broiler feed was also found to be below the maximum permissible level. On the use of tannery waste as broiler chicken feed, the Agriculture Minister said, ‘It is completely baseless. Because, currently the demand for poultry or chicken feed […]
Although broiler chicken is an “easily available and cheap” source of meat for a large part of the country’s population, there has been a long-standing concern about the presence of harmful antibiotics and heavy metals in it. However, a recent government study says that broiler chickens are safe to eat and pose no risk to […]
