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From the Editorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Desk Time To Care Your Chick This is the time of year when chickens will need more special attention. Chickens have a much higher Body temperature than you. The average body temperature for a chicken normally will run at 102-103 degrees F.their heart rate is normally 280-315 beats per minute. Another fact is a rooster will take around 18-20 breaths per minute while a hens is 30-35 breaths per minute. Heat Can create more problems to chickens than cold weather can. Its easy to see they are insulated rather well with many feathers. Chickens fluff up their feathers as many birds will do which trap air between the layer which keep air in as insulation in cold weather in warmer weather they seek out shade. You will notice them lay down and spread their wing and bodies out cool down the main way a chicken cools itself though is drinking plenty of cold water. This is the time to have additional amounts of water available for you chickens. Try keeping extra pails of water available for you flock both in the coop and outside as well.having more than one source of water for chickens also help in preventing fights etween them over who gets to drink first make sure the water is clean and fresh the best rule to live by is replacing the water daily so it always fresh and cool.chickens will drink more water if it is cool rather than warm. During hot weather algae is more likely to grow so remember to clean out the water bowls more often too. In extreme heat is extra important to provide plenty of ventilation isnside the coop all window should be open for air circulation thick bedding such as pine shavings can be a heat absorber and should be used more sparingly having only an inch or so in thickness if you have electric in the coop providing a fan will help in circulation air flow. Having constant air flow is a must roof vents will help in removing trapped heat around the ceiling look for signs of mold in the coop if using straw or hay. Overcrowding increases heat provide plenty of rooms for your chickens to move freely provide shade in as many areas as possible try not disturbing your chickens in the middle of the day they need to do their own thing and rest when they can. At this time you want to keep stress levels down as low as possible let them do their own thing avoid picking them up which will increase their body temperature only monitor them during hot weather for signs of excess heat stress.

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Saleem Yousuf INFECTIOUS BURSAL DISEASE – A METICULOUS ANALYSIS

Dr. Sunil sawant, Dr. A. Kandasamy INCLUSION BODY HEPATITIS (IBH) IN BROILERS

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POULTRY SCENARIO IN INDIA Introduction India has 1.23 billion people and the number is growing every year. Within a span of 25 years, the egg production has gone up to 70 billion from few millions and the broiler production has gone to 3.8 million tonne from nowhere. The growth is 6-8% in layers and 10-12% in broilers per year against the growth of agriculture as a whole which is around 2.5%. India is the thirdlargest egg producer after China and USA and the fourth-largest chicken producer after China, Brazil and USA. The per capita eggs consumption has gone up from 30 to 68 and the chicken from 400 gm to 2.5 kg. India's per capita consumption of poultr y meat is estimated at around 3.1 kg per year, which is low compared to the world average of around 17 kg per year. However, consumption is growing, with 2016 total chicken meat consumption forecast at 4.19 million tons; up by approximately eight per cent over 2015.The FAS expects 2016 layer production to reach 80 billion eggs, up ﬁve per cent from last year. India's per c a p i t a c o n s u m p t i o n of e g g s i s estimated at about 62 eggs per year. Chicken is the preferred meat in India due to its lower price than other meat sources, and is not subject to the same religious restrictions as other meats. The report says demand can ﬂuctuate due to religious and cultural practices though, as chicken and eggs may be eaten less at different times of the year. Human nutritionists recommend 180 eggs & 10 kg chicken per year. Most of the countries consume over 240 eggs and 20 kg of chicken. Current scenario India ranks 3rd in egg production and 7th in chicken meat production in the world (Watt Executive Guide, 2015). About 3.4 million tons (74 billion) of eggs are produced from 260 million layers and 3.8 million tons of poultry 10

meat is produced from 3000 million broilers per annum in India. The Poultry Industr y is contributing about Rs.70,000/- crores to the national GDP and providing employment to more than 4 million people either directly or indirectly. About 2-2.5 million tons of poultr y litter, a valuable organic fertilizer, is produced as a byproduct every year. The poultry industry is concentrated in certain pockets of the country. The State of Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Tamil Nadu lead the country followed by Maharashtra, Punjab and West Bengal. The popularity of poultry meat is on the rise during the last two decades. It is presently accounting for about 45% of the total meat consumed and is the most popular meat from any single livestock species. Chicken dominates the poultry production in India with nearly 95% of the total egg production and the rest is contributed by ducks and others (DADF, 2014). Majority of ducks are found in certain states on the eastern and southern coast like West Bengal, Assam, Orissa, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu etc. Other species like turkeys, guinea fowls, ostriches, emus etc. are reared only in small numbers in areas having speciﬁc market demand. India is the home for many breeds of native chicken like A s e e l , K a d a k N a t h , Te l l i c h e r r y, Haringhata Black, Nicobari, Danki etc., which are still popular among the rural and tribal areas for back yard/ free range farming (Chatterjee and Haunshi, 2014). For the commercial farming, high yielding crosses developed and supplied by the private sector like Babcock, Bovans (egg type) and Cobb, Ross, Hubbard (meat type) are being used. The crosses developed under the public sector like Krishilayer, Krishibro (multicolored broiler etc.) are popular in certain areas. Availability of eggs is highly non-uniform in different parts of the country primarily due to wide variation in the production levels.

Poultry Production has three segments: 1.Layers 2. Broilers 3. Backyard / Family Production (Both eggs and chicken) Layer Industry (Eggs) The small layer units are becoming unviable. Large units with million birds and 100,000 birds in one house are coming up. Some 70% of the layer birds were in the states of Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra & Karnataka in south and only Punjab in the north. The eggs are transported to other states. More production units are coming up in Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal and Bihar now. North-Eastern states are planning production units to get fresh eggs at more reasonable costs saving time and money on transport. Larger units go for bulk purchases, seasonal purchases at harvest and even go for import of feed ingredients. Promotion of egg consumption in midday meal schemes, hospitals will boost the demand. Shell eggs & egg p r o d u c t s , l i ke p a s t e u r i z e d a n d processed liquid eggs have good markets in many countries like the Middle-East and Japan. Broiler Industry Broiler bird was not known in India till 1975. The commercial broiler chicks ready in 60 days, more efﬁcient with tender meat started coming as separate entity after 1975. The hatcheries impor ted the parents and the grandparents of the hybrid broilers. The breeding operations started in Delhi and later shifted to South India. Movement of parent stock, hatching eggs, day-old chicks initiated the broiler growing ever ywhere. The hatcheries sold day-old chicks to farmers who raised them and sold to traders. Live broilers became a separate food entity in 10 years. Tremendous technical work has gone in to broiler production in the ﬁelds of genetics, nutrition, breeder

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ARTICLE management, hatchery management, housing and disease management. The broiler growing period has gradually come down to less than 40 days from 60 days. More broiler growers and improved efficiencies have changed the shape of the industry. Feed (65%) and chicks (25%) account for 90% of the broiler inputs and the consolidation started in the production. There is a wide gap between the economics of the smaller units purchasing feed & chicks and the ones using their own feed & chicks. Big companies with larger investments came in and the smaller units compromised on growing the broilers for the company, restricting themselves to the 10% of the production cost. This synergy in the form of “Contract Farming” is an excellent development that took place in India. Farmers with small landholding find growing broilers on “All-inAll-out” basis for a company, in a poultry house built on the land is giving better and assured returns compared to agriculture which is more naturedependent and uncertain. 3. Backyard / Family Production (Both eggs and chicken) India has 60% rural population depending on agriculture. Poultry has been there in the backyards of most of the houses since ages, forming a part of nutrition and family income. At one time, 30% of the eggs produced were in the backyards. The birds available there were never improved and were inefficient for both eggs and meat production. Grains, fruits, flowers, vegetables & milk are all produced by the small farmers. Even the products are marketed by the farmers directly in weekly village markets and “Collection Centres” established by government or companies. The government started encouraging the backyard poultry. Improved varieties “Low technology input birds” are bred for this purpose, which are genetically more efficient in production compared to “Native 12

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chicken.” The low technology input birds are mostly dual purpose. The birds grow faster than native chicken reaching 1.5 kg weight in 45 days but can withstand variable feed qualities and also supplement themselves by scavenging. The female birds lay 160 eggs against the native birds, which are broody & do not lay more than 60 per y e a r. M o t h e r U n i t s ” a r e b e i n g encouraged to take care of the brooding & vaccination in the early part of growing (first four weeks) before they are distributed. This ensures disease security. Cluster farming” in rural areas is possible with these chicken for enhancing the meat production in the lines of broiler farming. A group of 8 to 10 farmers or educated youth can form a cluster and grow the birds in groups of 500 to 1,000 birds in low-cost houses as done in broilers. The birds are grown in “All in All out” basis and the producer works by himself. The group can graduate in to “organic chicken” by making their own low-cost feeds without chemicals and antibiotics. The cluster can market the birds in local village mandis or supply them to supermarkets with a brand name. The slow growing multicoloured chicken with tougher meat fetch better price compared to broilers whose meat is becoming tender every year. This area is developing as a “niche market” with better returns. Family laying units” with no specific investment on large houses, bank finance & labour on the lines of milk production are being attempted in many states to augment the egg production. Mother units grow the pullets up to 15 weeks and complete all the vaccinations before supply to the beneficiaries. 25 to 500 birds can be kept in the same cattle shed with cages installed with nipple drinking system. The unit requires less water and the poultr y manure can be used for agriculture lands. Once established, feed manufacturing companies will supply the layer feed like the cattle feed. Eggs are less perishable than milk. Eggs

can be supplied to village schools for midday meal schemes and hospitals without involving transportation. Brown colour, sturdy layer type birds, laying 300 eggs and more are being considered for “Family Laying Units.” States like Kerala have adopted this system as an “alternative system” of egg production to commercial poultry. Poultry Exports from India The final food products eggs and chicken are not exported in huge quantities. There is a huge gap in production and need within the country. The food markets in affluent countries are very quality- and pricesensitive. The prices realised in outside markets by competing with larger players like Brazil and USA have not been very attractive. The situation may continue for some more time. There are other poultry-related exports which are possible. The poultry in the European Union and Americas (both north and south) is stagnant. Their exports are slowing down because all importing countries started their own productions. Asia has been a target market for the EU and Americas for a long time. Asian poultry has recorded the fastest growth during last two decades and is planning for exports after meeting domestic demand. Thailand and China are into exports already. Oil-rich Middle-East is still happy importing the final products which is easier than importing all the inputs like chicks, feed, machinery and labour. Africa is the growth area in poultry for the next two decades. Africa has favourable climate, agricultureb a s e d e c o n o m y, h u g e w o r k i n g population and deficient in production. India has a great opportunity to export many things in poultry to Africa. India has Breeding Research in poultry and developed birds (breeds) suitable for open houses, which can take lower Continue page on...16

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INFECTIOUS BURSAL DISEASE – A METICULOUS ANALYSIS Generally, there are 3 well documented pathotypes of IBDV. 1.

Classic

Variant

Very Virulent

Disease incidences in India

Introduction Infectious Bursal Disease (IBD) is an infectious, acute or in many cases subclinical viral disease of fowls which causes necrosis and atrophy of bursa of Fabricius. IBD is a global problem. In fully susceptible ﬂock the disease appears suddenly and there is high morbidity rate usually approaching 100% with mortality rate of 20-30%. The economic importance of this disease is manifested in 2 ways. First the virus can cause heavy mortality in birds of 3 weeks and older. The second, most important, is prolonged immunosuppression of chickens infected at early age. The virus causes severe immunosuppression in young chickens by destroying the developing B cells in the bursa of Fabricius and thus diminishing the pool of reactive B cells. IBDV induced immunosuppression increases the incidences of diseases caused by opportunistic pathogens and prevents young chickens respond optimally to routinely used vaccines. Etiology IBD virus is a double stranded RNA virus belongs to Birnaviridae family. The virus is non-enveloped, hexagonal, 60nm in diameter with icosahedral symmetry. It's stable and can persist for nearly 4 months in deep litter and for 7 weeks in feed. It is resistant to acidic pH and lipid solvents. 14

IBD is a well-established disease in all types of birds in India, particularly commercial broilers (various studies in India). Very Virulent IBD was ﬁrst diagnosed in West Bengal in 1991. After that it did spread to other parts of India and caused mortality up to 70%. Presently IBD is a real threat wherever organized poultry farms are there. Subclinical IBD Subclinical form of IBD is a real threat to poultry industry. In this form the bursal tissues are damaged without overt clinical signs which lead to immunosuppression in turn poor response to other vaccines like New Castle vaccines. Present control measures in India Presently IBD is controlled by using live IBD vaccines of intermediate type or intermediate plus (hot) type of vaccines. Disadvantages of present vaccination program 1. Problem in calculating day of vaccination : All the day old broiler chicks will contain some quantity of maternal antibodies (MAb) against IBD because of use of 3 way or 4 way killed in parents. It's proven that MAb will inter fere with live vaccines. Accurate calculation of M A b a n d t h e n i d e a l d a y of vaccination are essential for success of live vaccines. Practically this is not done most of the time. The day of vaccination is assumed at day 12-15 in India. This will lead to vaccine failures because of two reasons i. Broiler chicks supplied to a farm

may of mixture from different parent flocks. So the MAb will vary widely. ii. Even the chicks are from same parents, the average mean MAb titre will apply only 70% birds. 15% birds will have low level of MAb which makes them susceptible to infection before vaccination. 15% birds will have high level of MAb which will neutralize the vaccine virus and remain unvaccinated. 2. Bursal damage and immunosuppression : Many studies indicate that residual pathogenicity is essential for good immune response to vaccine virus. But that will damage the bursal tissues and cause immunosuppression. When the virulence of vaccine increases the bursal damage also will be higher. 3. Inability to prevent subclinical IBD As discussed above, because of inaccurate day of vaccination the birds will get infected with field IBD virus which will lead to subclinical form of IBD. 4. Problems in vaccine administration i. Most of the maintaining cold chain in the field is a challenge ii. Water vaccination, if followed, may not be accurate to cover all birds because of water quality, presence of traces of sanitizer etc.

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Advantages of immune complex vaccines over conventional live vaccines 1.

ICX vaccine removes the uncertainty of vaccination timing associated with conventional live vaccines due to the fact that maternally derived antibodies will not be uniform in a ﬂock. ICX vaccine is not neutralized by MDA.

Since the bursal damage will be minimal with ICX vaccine, there will

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quality feed and resist lower level infections. They can prove better for Africa. India produces the best quality hatching eggs which can be exported to the Middle-East and Africa. Hatchery is a better option to start with, before going in for breeding stocks. This involves mostly airlifting of eggs and Liaoning. APEDA, which is created for this purpose, is not helping much. Production technologies adopted in India involves fewer investments on low-cost housing, encourages more manual labour, and less dependence on consistent power supply are valuable for developing African nations. Poultry equipment, feed additives, vaccines & pharmaceuticals have a good potential for exports. Imports The threat of import of chicken legs 16

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from USA is looming large on Indian poultry industry. USA is doggedly pursuing the export of chicken legs by using WTO. The imports, if commenced, wi l l di s turb the I ndi an farm i ng community to a great extent. It is unfair to say that farmers are suffering in USA. Only multinational corporate companies operate in USA and there are no farmers. In India, broiler rearing alone is a food giver for 100,000 families. USA is trying to encash on the price gap between the breast meat and leg meat in USA. They get paid four times higher price for 30% of the breast meat and the legs are “Offal” for them.

They accumulate the small quantities of legs for years and want to dump on India, which is basically unethical. Policy makers of India should put all out efforts to stop this unreasonable attempt by USA. They are working behind the shield of WTO playing politics. As of today, USA is reeling under out breaks of “High Pathogenic Avian Inﬂuenza.” They are unlikely to come out of it with their massive units on stamping out only. Our politicians and policy-makers should watch out for the possibility of this dumping and prevent it.

Saleem Yousuf, Naseer Ahmad Baba, Sushil Kumar Ph.D. Scholar, ICAR-National Dairy Research Institute, Karnal, Haryana-132001, India Email-saleemyousuf57155@gmail.com

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INCLUSION BODY HEPATITIS (IBH) IN BROILERS Introduction The viral inclusion body hepatitis (IBH) is an adenovirus infection characterized by haemorrhages and dystrophic necrobiotic changes in the liver and kidneys, accompanied by intranuclear inclusion bodies. A characteristic macroscopic lesion is the enlarged, dystrophic liver with yellowish colour and crumbly texture.A disease of chickens characterised by acute mortality, often with severe anaemia. A number of different serotypes have been isolated from disease outbreaks but they may also be isolated from healthy chickens. It has a course of 915 days with a morbidity of 1-10% and a mortality of 1-10%. Infected birds remain carriers for few weeks. The transmission of adenoviruses is realized vertically by breeder eggs and horizontally, via excreta (mainly faeces). Immunosuppression, for instance due to early IBD challenge or c o n g e n i t a l C AV i n f e c t i o n , m a y b e important. The virus is generally resistant to disinfectants (ether, chloroform, pH), and high temperatures. Formaldehyde and iodides work better.A form of the disease affecting birds under 3 weeks of age in India has been reproduced with sero¬type

2,4 and 11adenovirus. IBH outbreaks are encountered primarily in meat type chickens, most commonly at the age of 3-8 weeks. It is characterized by a sudden onset and a sharply increased death rate that reaches peak values by the 3rd - 4th day and returns back within the normal range by the 6th - 7th day. The total death rate is usually under 10% but sometimes could attain 30%. Signs Ÿ

Sudden onset

Birds debilitated & reluctant to move

Huddling with rufﬂed feathers

Depression and inappetance.

Pallor of comb and wattles.

Yellow mucoid droppings or green dropings

Usually affects birds of 3 to 5 week age, but can also affect chicks even of 4 day age

Mortality ranges from 2 to 40 % , but can reach to 70% in acute cases

Post-mortem lesions Ÿ

Liver swollen, yellow, mottled with petechiae and ecchymoses.

Blood thin and bone marrow pale.

Bursa and spleen small.

The kidneys are enlarged, pale and mottled with multiple haemorrhages.

Pe te c h i a l a n d e c c h y m o t i c h a emorrhages in heart

Congested & haemorrhagic lungs with inﬂammation and oedema

Enlarged, pale and friable kidney

Many instances of IBH, the amount of pericardial straw color ﬂuid increased (hydropericardium).

Microscopically - basophilic intranuclear inclusions.

Diagnosis A presumptive diagnosis may be made on histor y and lesions. Confirmation is made on finding inclusions body in the liver. The virus grows well in tissue culture (CEK, CEL). Serology: DID for group antigen, SN for individual serotypes. D i f f e re n t i a t e f ro m C h i c k a n a e m i a syndrome, sulphonamide intoxication, Infectious Bursal Disease, vibrionic hepatitis, fatty liver syndrome, and deficiency of vitamin B12.

Pic.1 to3: Liver swollen, yellow, mottled with petechiae and ecchymoses.

Pic.4 to 6: Enlarged, pale and friable kidney 18

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Pic.7 to 8: Pericardial straw color ﬂuid is increased (hydropericardium). Treatment As with many other viral diseases, there is no treatment. But following step should be taken for reduce the mortality: 1.

Lighter the feed or use maize or wheat daliya

Use D-Biomixor Bytox BHK or @ 1020ml/100 birds

Jegary/gud @0.7-1kg/1000birds and lassi/chhachh 1Lt/1000birds

Immunobooster also give

Use iodophore in drinking water

If kidney showed severely damage or gouty then also use Nefrotec or Neeri.

If severe IBH outbreak and not complicated with other viral infection like Gumboro then we can use Home made vaccine (Using Liver of infected birds of same farm)

Prevention Quarantine and good sanitary precautions, prevention of immunosuppression.The most important steps in IBH prevention are the control of IBD. IBH killed vaccine can be administered by i/m or s/c injection at the dose rate: Ÿ

Chicks less than 10 days of age: 0.25 ml per bird

Chicks more than 10 days of age: 0.5 ml per bird

Broilers: 1 to 4 days

Breeders: 4th, 22th & 40th week

Proper vaccine should be done in breeders with IBH strain 2, 4 & 11 at the age 4th week, 22nd week and 40th week. Or if using only one vaccine on 22nd week then suggest them at least change it to 16th and 21th week of age. When breeders are properly vaccinated, antibodies generated by the vaccine are transmitted to the progeny, providing protection against ﬁeld infections and clinical disease. Broilers are vaccinated at <10 days of age when their parents either do not have serotypespeciﬁc adenovirus antibodies or maternal antibody transmission is erratic because of improper vaccination procedures that re s u l t i n a s u b s t a n t i a l n u m b e r of unvaccinated birds.

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POULTRY GENOME Introduction The chicken (Gallus gallus) is an impor tant model organism that bridges the evolutionary gap between mammals, shared a common ancestor with mammals - 310 million years ago at a phylogenetic distance, and serves as the main laboratory model for the, 9600 extant avian species. The chicken also represents the ﬁrst agricultural animal to have its genome sequenced. Modern birds (Ornithurae) evolved from therapod dinosaurs in the middle of the Mesozoic era. Darwin suggested that the red jungle fowl was the nearest ancestor to the domestic chicken, a view later conﬁrmed by mitochondrial DNA analysis. Genetic analysis of the chicken dates back to the start of the twentieth century. Genome organization A unique characteristic of avian genome is the large variability in chromosome size. In addition to a pair of sex chromosomes, chickens have 38 pairs of autosomes: 5 macro-, 5 intermediate and 28 micro chromosomes. Since each chromosome arm must have at least one obligate c r o s s o v e r, i t f o l l o w s t h a t t h e microchromosomes will have the highest rate of recombination. The density of genes is highest on the microchromosomes, as reported by mapping of genes and whole genome sequencing. Comparison of chicken and turkey sequences revealed that different chromosome size classes are subject to different evolutionary forces. Microchromosomes show 18% higher sequence divergence in introns and a 26% higher rate of synonymous substitution in coding sequences than macrochromosomes, indicating that the smaller chromosomes are more susceptible to germline mutations.

assembled using a whole-genome sequencing strategy. This approach produced a high-quality assembly, in part because of the relatively small size of the chicken genome, one third that of a typical mammal. The draft sequence of its genome—composed of approximately one billion base pairs of sequence and an estimated 20,00023,000 genes, however, the chicken genome has low repetitive DNA content, only 11% as compared with 40%–50% found in mammals. The sequence employed DNA from a single inbred female Jungle Fowl (Gallus gallus gallus, the ancestor of domesticated chickens) and represented a 6.6-fold coverage of the genome. In birds, it is the female that is the heterogametic sex, with single copies of the Z and W chromosomes. Therefore, these chromosomes were p o o r l y re p re s e n te d i n t h e ﬁ n a l assembly. In addition, unlike the rest of the genome, the W chromosome has a high repeat content and so very little sequence was assembled. For autosomes, sequence coverage was 98% based on overlaps. The MHC region on chromosome 16, which is a rich source of duplicated genes, was very poorly represented in the ﬁnal draft sequence. The complete analysis of draft sequence of chicken genome underlines the following observation : Ÿ

The nearly threefold difference in size between the chicken and mammalian genomes reﬂects a substantial reduction in i n te r s p e r s e d re p e a t c o n te n t , pseudogenes and segmental duplications within the chicken genome.

The sizes of chicken chromosomes correlate negatively with recombination rate, and gene density but positively with repeat density.

There is a paucity of retroposed p s e u d o g e n e s i n t h e c h i c ke n

Genome sequence The current draft of the chicken genome was published in 2004 24

genome, in contrast to mammalian genomes, greatly simplifying the classiﬁcation of chicken gene content. Ÿ

It was observed that unlike all other vertebrate genomes studied so far, no short interspersed nucleotide elements (SINEs) was active in the chicken genome for the last, 50 million years.

Alignment of the chicken and human genomes identiﬁes at least 70 megabases (Mb) of sequence that is highly likely to be functional in both species.

Applications of the chicken genome sequence Birds and mammals shared a common ancestor for approximately 310 million years ago. Taken together with the ready access to chicken embryos and as a major food source, chicken genomics is likely to have major applications and beneﬁts in comparative genomics, evolutionary biology and systematic, models of development and human disease, and agriculture. Comparative genomics Comparisons with known functional sequences suggested that 75% of coding regions and 30%–40% of regulatory elements are conserved. Only 2.5% of the chicken sequence could be aligned with that of the human (44% coding, 25% intronic, and 31% intergenic) and given that 5% of the mammalian genome is under selection, almost all of this is likely to be of functional signiﬁcance. The chicken genome is 35% the size of the human and 45% of mouse. In part, this can be explained in terms of the low frequency of repeats, pseudogenes, segmental duplication, and gene duplications. However, these factors only account for 20%–25% of the variation in genome size, so other factors are at work, possibly a dearth of ancient repeats ( t h a t a re n o l o n g e r d e te c t a b l y

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repetitive) or reduction in cell size and energy conservation. Developmental biology The chicken has always been a favorite among developmental biologists because of easy access to the chick embryo and ease of manipulation. These features, when combined with the new tools of genomics, are ideal for testing gene function and predicted regulatory sequences in vivo. Genetic variation and complex trait analysis In parallel with the chicken genome sequencing project, a consortium generated 2.8 million SNPs from a comparison of the Red Jungle Fowl

reference sequence and par tial genome scans of Silkie, Broiler, and Layer lines. Nucleotide diversity was six times the rate found in humans. An initial surprise was that ~70% of SNPs were common to all breeds, suggesting an origin prior to domestication 5,000–10,000 years ago. Another possibility is that their ancestry has been lost because of extensive cross breeding between Asian and western poultry populations. These assays will be used to map and identify genes controlling traits of economic and biological interest at quantitative trait loci (QTL). Currently, more than 600 QTL have been mapped using microsatellites.

Animal health and the avian immune system The MHC was the ﬁrst major chicken genome sequence to be assembled and was a surprise, being relatively compact and simpler than those of mammals. Even genes once thought to be mammalian-speciﬁc, including IL3, IL7, IL9, IL26, CSMF, LIF, and Cathelicidin, were found in chicken genome. These are proteins that evolve rapidly and require more effort to detect. Chickens lack lymph nodes and also the genes for the lymphotoxins (LT- and -) and their receptors, TNF is also absent, but its receptor is present.

Kush Shrivastava¹, Rebeka Sinha²*, Prajwalita Pathak², Deepandita Barman² ¹ Department of Animal Husbandry, Govt. of M.P., Madhya Pradesh, India ² Dairy Cattle Breeding Division, ICAR- NDRI, Karnal, Haryana, India *Corresponding author – Dr. Rebeka Sinha, Dairy Cattle Breeding Division, ICAR-NDRI, Karnal, Haryana

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AB VISTA SEMINARS : IMPROVED POULTRY FARM PROFITABILITY THROUGH NUTRITIONAL MANAGEMENT t e c h n i c a l expertise. Dr. Carrie Walk, Senior Research M a n a g e r, A B V i s t a - U K discussed about t h e l a t e s t developments in phytase and NSPase. She discussed the i m p o r t a n c e of phytase, phytase AB Vista team in Kathmandu super dosing, combination of AB Vista South Asia (ABVSA), an animalnutrition technology company phytase superdosing and NSPase, while offering pioneering products and a l s o d i s c u s s i n g t h e i r p r a c t i c a l technical services to South Asian animal applicability. feed industry, conducted seminars in Key points discussed by Dr. Carrie are Kathmandu and Kolkata on 1 and 3 Superdosing with Quantum Blue is August 2017 respectively. The main the most economical way to improve theme of the events was, 'How to broiler performance maximize the poultry farm proﬁtability through nutritional management'. The Ÿ A m o n g t h e m a n y p h y t a s e s available, Quantum Blue-the nonseminars were a huge success with coated, intrinsically thermostable more than 80 poultr y delegates phytase-is the best due to quick participating in the events. release after ingestion and Mr. Atmaram Yadav, Sales Manager, sustained activity in GIT. ABVSA star ted the events by welcoming all to the events and Ÿ Quantum Blue reduces higher phytate esters progressively to introducing the ABVSA team. Dr. l ower esters enabling more Chandani Parihar, Marketing Manager, availability of protein and minerals. ABVSAbrieﬂy described aboutAB Vista stating that AB Vista is one of the top three companies in feed enzyme industry, a feat achieved solely on the basis of its innovative products and

Dr. Carrie presenting in Kathmandu

Production of signiﬁcant quantities of inositol: improves FCR and body weight.

Dr. Carrie presenting in Kolkata

Dr. Carrie interacting with participants, Kathmandu

Results in an overall return on investment of 1:4.

Xylanases solution beyond energy release Ÿ

Most abundant NSP present in corn soya based poultr y diet is Arabinoxylan.

More enzymes do not necessarily mean better performance.

Econase XT is a unique xylanase which is intrinsically thermostable, and delivers maximum return on investment by improving energy and protein digestibility in poultry.

Econase XT acts beyond its role of NSPase and also acts as a prebiotic.

It breaks down both soluble and insoluble arabinoxylans to decrease gut viscosity, increase feed intake and reduce substrate for potential pathogens in intestine.

Quantum Blue superdosing and Econase XT combination The combination of Quantum Blue superdosing with Econase XT further improves the FCR by additional 2 points

Dr. Carrie Walk interacting with the participants

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over Quantum blue superdosing alone. This helps farmer to be more competitive in the market.

impact on the availability of amino acid and can be of importance while formulating feed for birds.

International Phytate Summit (IPS3): Formulating for the future

Dr. Rahul Sawarkar, Technical Manager, ABVSA further added to the discussion on prebiotics and probitocs saying that with ban on antibiotics in many countries and promotion of antibiotic free farming, the importance of preand pro-biotics has increased. He said:

Major focus until recently has remained on IP6 but lower esters speciﬁcally IP4 and IP3 also have anti-nutritive properties.

Function of inositol diphosphates (IP7 and IP8) are being explored in relation to cell repair, energy metabolism, bone deposition etc.

Determination of calcium and phosphorus digestibility in feed ingredients has generally been overlooked. There is a need to determine novel ways of determining the same. Use of high levels of phytase has

Participants in Kathmandu

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Nutriferm-Yeast cell wall has MOS (Mannan oligosaccharide) that acts as prebiotic and stimulates growth of good bacteria.

Nutriferm-Yeast cell wall also hasβglucans that binds with pathogens in GIT and suppresses the activity of pathogens.

The combined action of MOS and βglucans results in improved

Participants in Kathmandu

Participants in Kolkata

immunity, improved gut architecture and enhanced overall health. Dr. Rahul also discussed about the ongoing Feed Quality Service (FQS) carried out by the ABVSA team over the last 8 months. FQS is an NIR based servicewhich indicates presence of phytate in all raw materials and ﬁnished feed emphasizing the importance of phytase. FOSS India also joined in the seminars to discuss about the importance and relevance of Near Infrared Spectrometer (NIR) machine for feed and feed ingredient analysis. The team from FOSS India gave a live demonstration of how to analyse feed ingredients through NIR indicating the relative ease of analysis with NIR machine.

Participants in Kolkata

Post event discussion in Kathmandu

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INFAH held its 6th AGM on 11th August 2017 at Mumbai

Dr. Vijay Makhija The 6th Annual General Body meeting of INFAH was held on 11th August 2017 at Hotel The Leela Mumbai. The meeting was attended by close to 100 industr y colleagues representing Indian Animal Health &Nutrition Industry. Indian Federation of Animal Health Companies (INFAH) has a clear vision towards creating trust among veterinary professionals, Livestock, Poultry, Companion Animal and Aqua stakeholders, enhancing animal health Industry's value and contribution to society, by setting high standards of competitiveness, ethical business practices, innovation and leadership among its members and also ensuring signiﬁcant presence across the globe. Meeting started with the Safety Brieﬁngs by Hotel The Leela Security Staff.

In his welcome address by Dr. D.K Dey , Vice PresidentINFAH, He expressed that the role of INFAH has become more signiﬁcant to meet the new challenges, adopt new culture and practices, be more proactive towards our role in policy making decisions and overall creating new opportunity for sustainable growth by adopting best professional and ethical practices. INFAH is totally committed to meet the expectations of its members. However, it would need constant encouragement and guidance from all who matter. Dr.Arun Atrey President INFAH welcomed all the membersto 6th AGM. He took this opportunity to congratulate all the members for being part of INFAH's journey of the last 6 years. This period was full of challenges and achievements. With the support of all the members INFAH have been able to create some new milestones which would give a new direction to its future growth. INFAH's Vision is to raise our Animal Health Practices at par with the best in The World, while ensuring that it protects the well-being of our local populace.

Key messages shared by Dr. Atrey were as follows 1.

INFAH's Mission is “Healthy Animal, Healthier India. INFAHs efforts would always be directed towards making our Animals healthy & their produce safe for the Human consumption. INFAH's endeavour would always be for the practices which are beneﬁcial to India and its Animal producers and consumers.

INFAHs initiatives has resulted in to many successes – FDCs, mention of withdrawal periods of products labels, scientiﬁc representation of AMR issues, Nil GST on Feed Supplements, High Visibility of INFAH at GAHC in collaboration with HFA.

The Growth of any Industry is linked with the quality and availability of the desired talent. Ours being a science Industry, it's essential that we continue to make our industry lucrative for the scientist c o m m u n i t y. We a l s o n e e d manpower for other functional

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areas. To achieve this, it's very important for all of us to work untiringly to attract better and more talent for the Animal Health Industry. Our Sub Committee on Human Resources has already started working in spreading the awareness regarding the Industry. All INFAH members need to contribute for the success of this initiative

Animal Health. While they continue to do well for their respective organisations, they must ﬁnd time to contribute for strengthening this Industr y. Ours being a small Industry our resources are also limited. Unless we work as a team/ unitedly by pooling our resources, it would be difﬁcult to accelerate the pace of development of this Industry

We need to be Innovative and think out of the Box. Animal Health being a unique area, it's possible that our requirements in terms of the drug laws and practices could be different. We need to continue to have a dialogue with Scientists and re g u l a t o r s t o w o r k t o w a rd s creating the best possible practices for the Industry which can be scientifically as well as commercially justified. We have been able to achieve significant success in some areas, so far.

Dr. Atrey thanked all the Management Committee members of INFAH who have worked relentlessly for the beneﬁt of this Industry. In addition he thanked all Sub Committee member's for their contribution without which we wouldn't have been able to achieve what we have done so far.The support of MOA, MOH&FW, Research Institutions& other associations of the Industry is praise worthy and we are grateful to them.

Expecting each INFAH Member to a d d v a l u e s t o t h e I N FA H ' s initiatives. We are blessed with having a pool of talented people who are very passionate about

He assured members that at INFAH we would continue to work with same Zeal and enthusiasm which has brought us here. He appealed to all members for their continued support for the Bright Future of this industry During the AGM

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presentation on Status Update with respect to Goods & Service Tax ( GST) representations by INFAH & its outcome was made by Mr. Satish Pasrija ( Past President &Chairman Sub Committee on Feed Supplements) INFAH Members were appraised about entire process of representations done at central , state level& with key stakeholders of GST council . Exemption of GST on Animal Feed Supplements / Animal Feed Additive Including DCP is accomplished due to well-coordinated efforts of INFAH . All the members appreciated INFAHs wellstructured approach for this initiative. The key learning from this initiative is that if there is merit in the issue, if it's in interestof all stakeholders, if industry takes this unitedly, if representation is structured &supported, probability of success is high This presentation received thunderous applause from all the delegates. Mr. Vijay Teng , General SecretaryINFAH emphasized that the journey of INFAH will always remain challenging due to ever changing regulator y environment and continual demand for cost effective solutions.

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chapter 23(09) ,AQCS Outreach Program Organised by department of AQCS to give the clarity on the queries related to import and export of feed additives and animals

Mr. Vijay Teng made a detailed presentation on journey of INFAH in 2016-17. He also explained in detail about the functioning of INFAH. He applauded the “Passion ”of all managing committee , & subcommittee members to take INFAH to greater heights

released during the 17th IVC held at IVRI - It elaborates on antimicrobials, their usage and guidelines for prudent use. Ÿ

Sub-committee on Therap-eutics represe-nted views during PGMIER Chandigarh RTC/ FAO –Mumbai Workshop and, IVCProceedings of the round table conference organised by INFAH

3rd Regulators'- Industry Interactive MeetAnnual Interactive Meet between Regulators and Companies Manufacturing Biologicals and Biosecurity Products, H a r m o n i z a t i o n of Ve t e r i n a r y Biologicals, Inclusion of monographs in IP

Round Table - Conference on “Prospects and Challenges of Ayurveda Animal Health Industry” was organised at New DelhiAttended by Dr. D. C. Katoch, Advisor (Ayurveda), Ministry of AYUSH, Dr. K. L. Khurana and Dr. Ashok Kumar from ICAR, Dr. Satish Garg, Dean, Mathura Veterinary CollegeExtensive discussion on regulatory issues pertaining to Veterinar y Ayur veda, creating awareness about the products, inclusion in Syllabus and Veterinary Ayurveda Pharmacopiea

Highlights of his presentation are as follows 1.

GST- More than a year of consistent representation and follow-up with MOA and MOFFeed Supplements and Dicalcium Phosphate are exempted under GST.Kudos to Managing Committee and Subcommittee on Feed Supplements and Feed Additives led by Mr. Satish Pasrija. Local support at Delhi from Dr Shirish Nigam and his Team was very much appreciated Antimicrobial Resistancediscussed very extensively both at Indian and Global platforms INFAH reiterated its view point that we are committed to promoting rational, judicious and prudent use of Antimicrobials. Continuous efforts are required from all stakeholders. FAO- INFAH Workshop, WHOAGISAR PGIMER India Workshop,17th Indian Veterinary Congress Guidelines on Antimicrobial Usage in Farm Animals Proceedings of the round table conference organised by INFAH along with IAAVR was

Misclassiﬁcation of Feed Additives Representation to Department of Custom ,For misclassiﬁcation of FA and FS under, chapter 29 instead of

National Round Table Conference on Poultry ICFA Conference on Poultry INFAH suggested various reforms for bringing advancement in the poultry industry Dr Vijay Makhija, Dr. Shirish Nigam & Dr. P.G. Phalke attended this event

Future of Digital Marketing event attended by INFAH team to Harness power of Digital Marketing

Attracting Talent for Animal Health Industry HR Career Portal ,A web portal on INFAH website to have database of candidates interested in AH Industry,Companies can access the information of prospects through the portal,Attracting Talent for Animal Health Industry Poster Pasting and Presentations at Colleges , organization of HR Conclave, Brainstorming session on talent acquisition and better manpower sourcing ,External speaker Mr. AnandorupGhose from Aon Hewitt gave insight on HR activities of other Industry

CSR Activities World Egg day Celebration at Veterinary College Mumbai Screening of short ﬁlm “KuchKookuch” Highlighting importance of egg Addressing misconceptions related to dietary eggs ,Distribution of Boiled Eggs to Students and Staff

Outreach Program at Schools Hutatma Babu Ganu Kalyan DombiviliMuncipal Corporation School (Mumbai) Highlighted importance of dietary protein and egg, proposals discussedfor arrangements for easy access of safe drinking water for the students

World Veterinar y Day Anand: Te c h n i c a l S e m i n a r o n A M R ,Bengaluru: Free Healthcare and

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very important that one should understand its duties and responsibilities and the potential consequences of their breach.

Fodder Distribution Camp,Delhi: Technical Seminar for Vets, Mandya: Technical Seminar for Field Vets Ÿ

Global Animal Health Conference GAHC -12 Animal Health Associations of Various Nations 150 legates across the Globe, Deliberation on Good Regulatory G o v e r n a n c e a n d Re g u l a t o r y Convergence

INFAH @ Health for Animals Attended 27th Ordinary General Assembly and 5th Member Association Forum at Washington DCINFAH engaged in discussion on antimicrobial resistance, illegal drugs and counterfeits and communication collaborations. INFAH offered platform for global events similar to GAHC in future

Supported Animal Health Forum Asia at Singapore in association with AAHA

INFAH@ Digital Era Active on social media circle Increasing awareness about the Animal Health Industry's contribution to society, Faster and Efﬁcient communication with members and global peers on activities of INFAH,Attracting and nurturing Talent for Animal Health Industry

INFAH CONNECT Vol-4 Released in July 2017Next Volume expected in Nov 2017

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Separate Vertical for AH Products, Representation to be made to MOH a n d M OA Re p re s e n t a t i o n o n Expectations from Regulators to streamline Various processes and timelines, Antimicrobial Usage in Ve te r i n a r y, S a f e g u a rd i n g t h e interest of Veterinary Healthcare , Continue to share the facts on antimicrobial resistance, Education and Awareness, Research and Innovation, Collaboration with research institutes and universities for knowledge transfer and technical tie-ups, Brand Awareness of Animal Healthcare sector Print media, social media and awareness programs,Synergism with Global Practices Close association with international animal healthcare bodies, United Approach of INFAH members, Communication c h a n n e l s , Pa r t i c i pa t i o n a n d Representations

During the AGM Following Insightful presentation were made by Guest Speakers 1.

Corporate Governance Role& Liabilities of Directors in changing times presentation made by Mr. Jayesh Udeshi ( Company Secretary , Virbac India Private Limited ) He emphasized that becoming a company director has become a very serious business and should not be undertaken lightly or unadvisedly, becoming a company director or are already a director, it is

Presentation on Rural Outreach & Animal Health by Shri R. S. Sodhi Managing Director , GCMFF ( AMUL) He shared rich insights on Indian Dairy Industry , Opportunities for Animal Health Industr y Major Hurdles/Road Blocks of Dairy Industry which may be the opportunities for animal H e a l t h I n d u s t r y, Po s s i b l e Opportunities for animal health Industry… Prevention is better than cure , Breeding and feeding are the major and valuable inputs of dairy husbandr y. His presentation received standing ovation from the delegates.

Presentation on Dynamics of Animal Health Business Strategy in changed environment By Mr.Sunil Madhok ( Strategy Consultant ,& Ex Director of Pﬁzer India Limited) He Highlighted that India Ranks 1st in Milk Production 3rd Largest in Production of Poultry EggsRanks 5th Largest in Production of Poultry Meat Yet India Animal Health Market is 1.6% of Global Market The GAP between being Leading Dairy & Poultry Producer Vs The size of the Animal Health Market Reﬂects an element of the existing potential to expand the market. He also shared strategy models which can be adopted by the Industry

Dr. P.G. Phalke ( Treasurer INFAH ) conducted the AGM proceedings & inform all the members of below updates 1.

Approval of Minutes of Meetings of 5th AGM

Annual report 2016-2017 presentation to members

Inclusion of Brilliant Pharma new INFAH member company

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Indian Herbs For his exemplar y contribution to society at large and Animal Health Industry in particular. Dr. Jeetendra Verma (Joint Secretary INFAH )read the citation for Shri.SUSHIEL AGRAWAL Mr.He is being recognize for four Decades of Undeterred Efforts and Acclaiming Laurels,Guiding Force to D e v e l o p Ve t e r i n a r y A y u r v e d a , transforming the Herbal veterinary care in India

Sharing of Balance Sheet for the year 2016-2017& approval of the same

Appointing the auditors for next term

Membership Renewal Status

Announcement of New Managing Committee for the Year 2017-2019 Dr. D.K.Dey ( President ) , Mr. Vijay Teng ( Vice President ) Dr. Vijay Makhija ( General Secretary ) , Dr. Shirish Nigam ( Joint Secretary ) Dr. P.G Phalke ( Treasurer) , Mr. Satish Pasrija (Past President ) , Dr. Arun Atrey ( Immediate Past President) , Dr. Jeetendra Verma , Dr. B P Manjunath, Mr Anurag Agrawal , Dr. Sandeep Karkhanis , Mr. Divya Gulati .

During the members forum INFAH Member Dr S. Chousalkar expressed interest to be par t of herbal subcommittee , Dr. Ramdas Kamble ( Chembond ) shared his thoughts on Encouraging start ups in Veterinary sector , Mr.Raujesh Agrawal ( Ashish Life Science ) shared his thoughts on veterinary products ( e.gdewormers) to be sold through OTC route , Dr Abhishek Garg ( Alvira) views on communication of HSN codes to INFAH members post GST regime .The Managing Committee has made the notes of their respective feedback & shall be taken forward by MC.

sector in the form of “INFAH Award”. The awardswere presented to Dr. Vilas Adhikari for his exemplary contribution to society at large and Animal Health Industry in particular. Dr Shirish Nigam read the citation for him. Over a period of more than ﬁve decades Dr. Vilas Adhikari served relentlessly working towards development & transformation of Animal Nutrition sector . The INFAH awards were presented to Mr. Ravindra. Kumar Agrawal (Visionary & Founder of Natural Remedies) for his exemplary contribution to society at large and Animal Health Industry in particular.Dr. B. P. Manjunath read the citation for Shri R. K Agarwal He is being recognize for taking Knowledge of Ayurveda Across Boundaries, Valuing Traditional System of Medicine, over three Decades of Leading Expertise in Ayurveda The INFAH awards were presented to Mr. SUSHIEL AGRAWALChairman

All the awardees thanked INFAH for this award and delivered an Inspirational speech by sharing there success mantra with the audience. Dr. Vijay Makhija proposed vote of thanks. He Expressed sincere gratitude to Mr. Satish Pasrija, Dr. Arun Atrey , Dr. DK Dey, Mr. Vijay Teng , Dr . P. G. Phalke , D r. J e e t e n d r a Ve r m a f o r t h e i r continuous guidance &suppor t. Thanked Guest Speakers Mr. Jayesh Udhesi, Shri R.S. Sodhi & Mr. Sunil Madhok for sharing their insights through presentation during the AGM. He recognized the contribution of each INFAH member, Managing committee, Subcommittee members and support from Ms Bhavana and her team members to help INFAH functioning as a responsible association. He thanked Dr. Nitin Bhatia & Dr. Rajni for providing support in organization of the 6th AGM & INFAH Connect publication. He thanked the hospitality and arrangements done by hotel staff. The program ended with networking dinner

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VAMSO BIOTEC PVT. LTD. AND ICA INTERNATIONAL CHEMICALS JOIN HANDS FOR THE LAUNCH OF BREAKTHROUGH BIO-SECURITY PRODUCT, ZOCLEAR™ IN INDIA Vamso Biotec & ICA International Chemicals, South Africa join hands with the intention of a long term relationship for marketing and distribution of a biosecurity product, ZoClear™ (which contains a patented modiﬁcation of Poly Dimethyl Ammonium Chloride), in India. With an increasing pressure on poultry producers to reduce or even stop the use of antibiotics bio-security is emerging as one of the most important disease control options open to poultry farmers across the globe. There is a growing need for countries to establish bio-security systems, either to prevent disease occurrences or meet o b l i g a t i o n s u n d e r i n te rn a t i o n a l agreements. Dr. Wouter Schreuder, Managing Director, ICA remarked, “We are proud of this association with Vamso Biotec serving the Indian animal health market and we view this as an exciting milestone in bringing our latest technology advancements to South Asia”.

Speaking on the development Mr Mukesh Agarwal, Managing Director Vamso Biotec Pvt. Ltd. said, “Our endeavor has always been to enable access to innovation across India and this bonding with ICA International Chemicals will help bring innovations to the poultr y market of India. The availability of new advanced poultry bio-security solutions in India adds a new dimension to the disease prevention in poultry. Dr. Robert Bragg (Consulting scientist & Professor: University of Free State of South Africa) with a work experience of about 20 years in the areas of biosecurity and advanced microbiology, have enlighted the launch events with his knowledge and research in this ﬁeld. Vamso Biotec and ICA International Chemicals organized a series of events in Aug, 2017. The product is already available in the channels and shelves. Vamso Biotec Pvt. Ltd. provides research based, efﬁcacious and quality assured Natural, Biotechnological for health & productivity needs of variety

of animal species through its group companies viz. Cattle Remedies India Ltd. (CRIL) and Vamso Biotec Pvt. Ltd. (VBPL). The company focuses on its resources for the development of unique solutions for Cattle, Poultry and Pet health care. Vamso Biotec Pvt. Ltd. is an ISO 9001:2015 & GMP certiﬁed company having manufacturing unit at Dehradun (Uttarakhand) in India with the state of the art R&D at Dehradun (Uttarakhand). The manufacturing and R&D is equipped with modern and sophisticated instrumentation facility & machinery to maintain high quality standards during product development and manufacturing. The ICA Group of Companies are South African registered entities. The group Researches, Develops, Manufactures & Delivers Novel and Generic Chemical Products for use in the Agricultural, Food Processing and Industrial Hygiene Industries. ICA state of the ar t manufacturing facility is located in Stellenbosch, close to Cape Town in South Africa.

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This time it was held at Hotel Jaipur Marriott, Rajasthan, India on 18th & 19th August 2017 and was attended by over 278 veterinarians, pathologists & University professors from the all over India & Bangladesh.

delivering the Closing Remarks RESCOM SUMMIT 2017, an initiative of Huvepharma SEA (Pune) Pvt. Ltd., is the second in the series of technical conferences mainly focused on RES pirator y complex in the poultr y segment. This specially designed conference, exclusively for veterinarians, nutritionists, pathologists & technocrats who contribute immensely to the poultry industry through their technical expertise and commitment, is aknowledge sharing platformto interact with nationally and internationally reputed panel of speakers & experts.

The conference was a two-day affair with the first & second day's Agenda having two & six technical presentations respectively. On the first day, the 18th of August, Mr. O. P. Singh, Managing Director, Huvepharma SEA, delivered the Opening Remarks. He welcomed the audience & briefed about the speakers and lauded the role of all the technocrats for their dedication and importance in the growth of the poultry industry. He gave a brief about the current scenario in the Indian poultry industry and global statistics of poultry meat production, feed ingredient availability & costs, complexities of integration operations, diseases & economic impact, regulatory requirements & supply chain significance. He goaded the gathering to use the two days of the conference to ponder over the future course of action in order to keep up with the Pace of Challenges&Racing Technologies by utilizing the Unlimited Solutions & taking advantage of the Emerging Opportunities to achieve The Next Leap.

Dr. Alain Kanora

Dr. Koen De Gussem

Mr. O.P. Singh

Dr. J. L. Vegad inaugurating the event The technical presentation sessions were initiated by Dr Alain Kanora, Global Marketing Director & Sales Director – Affiliates, Huvepharma Group. He presented on the topic “Economic Impact of Respirator y Complex in Broilers & Breeders –A Global Perspective” and explained the significance of a health respiratory tract to achieve healthy birds. He also elaborated on the effect of respiratory health of birds on the economics and profitability of the business. He touched

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u p o n f a c t o r s l i ke h i g h o x y g e n requirement of birds owing to their high metabolic rate. He presented numerical data on the costs & losses incurred by the industr y due to respiratory diseases worldwide like Avian Inﬂuenza, New castle disease and CAV virus, and more particularly, mycoplasma. Mycoplasma gallisepticum (MG) and Mycoplasma synoviae (MS) cause chronic infection and diseases and their economic impact is multifold like drastic drop in performance of birds, drop in average daily gain (ADG), drop in eggs production, poor egg shell quality, i n c re a s e d m o r t a l i t y i n b ro i l e r s , increased secondary infections and diseases, more monetary losses in older birds. In his words “economics is the most inﬂuencing factor for any business. The poultry farmer's economic well-being shall decide the fate of all other associated businesses in the poultry industry”.He observed that genetics have improved, less feed is consumed but growth is much higher as compared to a few decades ago, and the bird's gut has evolved considerably. He observed

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that 75% of cost of raising chicken comes from feed and hence optimum nutrient level is the key factor in achieving proﬁtability. He concluded his presentation saying “Prevention, from day one, is the most ideal and effective solution followed by treatment throughout the life of the bird”. The second presentation of the day was by Prof. Nuvee Propasarakul, presently a faculty member in the department of veterinary Microbiology, Chulalongkon University, Pathumwan, Bangkok. He presented on the topic“Chick Living Chick Under Antimicrobial Resistance Crisis- A Paradigm for Technocrats”. His presentation consisted of details about d e t e c t i o n a n d c l a s s i ﬁ c a t i o n of Antimicrobial Resistance, its types and current situation in poultry industry, different prevalent pathogens like E. Coli, Salmonella and also MG/MS. He also discussed about the reduction of antimicrobial resistance using Flavomycin.

Prof. Michael Czarick

discovery, and development of new antibiotics as a global priority. He detailed in his presentation about the mechanism of resistance acquired and mode of action of different antibiotics. Avian Mycoplasmosis and its resistance in the context of Resistance Vs. Persistence was also a part of his presentation. He concluded his talk with the key learning that Flavomycin can reduce the antibiotics resistance phenotypes, it also reduced antibiotics resistance genes and antibiotics resistance plasmids and Flavomycin had the ability to block bacterial conjugation thus arresting infection within the bird, thus keeping the food chain safe.

He detailed about the different Antimicrobial Susceptibility testing methods and its interpretation, emphasized on list of antibioticresistant bacteria to guide research,

The day closed with a warm welcome dinner for all the guests & speakers.

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The second day began with a soulful rendition of the National Anthem followed by traditional lamp lighting by ﬁve senior veterinarians namely, Dr. Chandrasekharan, Dr. J. L. Vegad, Dr. V. Ramsubba Reddy, Dr. VeerabhadraRao, Dr. S. G. Rao & Dr. G. B. Puttannaiah. Mr. O. P. Singh initiated the sessions by welcoming one and all again and thanking the audience for their presence is full strength, which he said encouraged him and Huvepharma to organize such large events time and again. He then handed over the baton to Dr. Alain Kanora & Dr. R. N. S. Gowda for chairing & anchoring the day's deliberations. Dr. Alain Kanora chaired the day'sprelunch sessionsand invited the ﬁrst speaker of the day, Prof. Michael Czarick who is presently working as Associate Professor in the University of Georgia's Depar tment of Biological and Agricultural Engineering. He is an Extension Engineer with the University of from the past 28 years. Prof. Czarick spoke on the topic “Environmental Impact: Managing

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Respirator y Distress Towards Optimum Health of Chicken”. He talked about the importance of the air speed in the shed during different weather conditions and its importance. His further elaborated on evaporative cooling system usage, inside and outside temperature of the shed and how birds manage these situations. He also emphasized on bird performance with evaporative cooling. He highlighted the reason for considering air speed as vital to keep the birds cool, especially in hot and humid climates. H e a l s o s p o k e o n H e a t St r e s s Management. He explained a broiler bird's heat metabolism in term of calories utilized as compared to humans. His presentation was focused more on heat loss, air temperature, body weight of bird, Relative Humidity of the house, and managing heat stress with evaporative cooling. He again discussed how air speed can be helpful in management of heat stress and substantiated it with trial data. He concluded his talk with the key massage that “cooling birds during hot weather is simple by use of evaporative cooling and management of air speed”.

Dean of the University of Adelaide. Apart from other research projects, he is currently leading the food safety research group at the Roseworthy campus of the University of Adelaide. Prof. Chousalkar made his session extremely interactive and engaging by use of gadgets and audience poll, which kept the audience actively involved and attentive. He started his presentation with his ﬁeld experience about managing mycoplasma in layers. His presentation focused on losses due to respiratory diseases in chicken, avian mycoplasma and its challenges, Chronic Respirator y Disease, challenges in diagnostics, methods employed for control of mycoplasma in Australia. He focused on correlation between antibody titers in serum and yolk for mycoplasma diagnosis,shell reﬂectivity, shell breaking strength, translucency and shell deformation as an indicator for mycoplasma infection. Further, he elaborated on his experience in managing mycoplasma in Australia in context with the strains in Australia, visible changes in egg quality& h i s t o p a t h o l o g y. D u r i n g h i s presentation, at the behest of several members from the audience, he also discussed about Infectious Bronchitis vaccine during laying.

Then second presentation was by Prof. Kapil Chousalkar on “Understanding Viral Interventions Causing Mycoplasmosis - AComplexity in Chickens”. Prof. Chousalkar is Associate

At last he concluded his talk that vaccination at rearing can offer protection against the wild strains of IBV infection. Serological monitoring using ELISA kits can provide deﬁnitive evidence of both vaccination efﬁcacy

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PRESS RELEASE and the presence of wild-type viral strains as well as diagnosis, control and treatment of mycoplasm a . T h e audience was very keen to know about his field experiences, observations and recommended solutions in layers. The next speaker was Prof. N. K. Mahajan, a Ph.D. in Public Health and Epidemiology from HAU, Hisar. He is R e g i o n a l D i r e c t o r, R V D E C , Mahendergarh, as well as Professor and Head & Senior Disease Investigation Officer (Poultry), Dept. of Veterinary Public Health &Epidemiology, COVS. H e h a s m o re t h a n 3 0 y e a r s of experience in poultr y disease investigation besides teaching to undergraduate and post graduate veterinary students. He presented on the topic “Avian Respiratory Virome – To Understand the Respirator y Pathogens”. He started his presentation with a macro view of Indian poultry sector. His presentation focused on Respiratory Virome in poultry by emphasizing on Avian Influenza, New Castle Disease, Infectious Bronchitis, Infectious Laryngotracheitis and Avian Pneumovirus. He briefed about the respiratory system in poultry and environmental factor s affecting respiratory system in poultry like ammonia, dust and high temperature. He concluded his talk by stressing on incidence of viral diseases and their increasingly becoming endemic. He suggested following appropriate vaccination schedule, monitoring titers regularly, getting diagnosis confirmed with advance technologies& following mycoplasma prevention schedule regularly. 40

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molecules available for effective control and treatment of the disease.

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The post-lunch session was chaired by Dr. R.N.S. Gowda, Ex Vice Chancellor, KVAFSU. He briefed about speakers of t h e s e s s i o n a n d i n v i t e d P r o f. MiekeMatthijsto present to the audience. Prof. Matthijs is presently working as Assistant Professor, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Dept. of Farm Animal Health, Utrecht University, The Netherlands. She is also an active board member of the veterinary poultry science association of The Royal Dutch Veterinary Association. Prof. Matthijs spoke on the topic “The CCRD Complex Unraveled”. In her presentation she introduced the gathering to the poultry history of The Netherlands, the systems, processes, programs and regulations followed there to ensure diseases free ﬂocks thereby ensuring safe food to the consumers. The Netherlands was the largest producer of table eggs with about 10 billion table eggs per year, which is higher than the USA, she said. She presented alarming statistics from studies in The Netherlands on the economic impact of mycoplasma, which showed that up to 20% loss in production was attributed to mycoplasma infection and resultant effects like embryo mortality, reduced growth, lower feed efﬁciency, increased morbidity and increased condemnation of carcasses etc. The various stages and symptoms of CRD and the more dangerous CCRD were discussed in detail, as were the most effective

She also discussed s t e r i l e immunity a n d preimmunity , hygiene and farm management, medication and vaccination. She s u g g e s te d t h a t s i n c e c o m p l e te elimination of mycoplasma infection is an unrealistic expectation and economically unviable alternative, eradication in grandparent ﬂocks was the best option for ensuring arrest and prevention of both horizontal and vertical transmission of mycoplasma infection. The subsequent session was that of Dr. Koen De Gussem, Global Technical Director of Huvepharma on the topic “Correct Usage of Antibiotics in Poultry; Mycoplasma as a Case Study”. In his presentation he elaborated on damage control through antibiotic treatment and vaccination as a way to achieve freedom from mycoplasma. He said that Mycoplasma gallisepticum (MG) and Mycoplasma synoviae (MS) were the most important disease causing organisms and need global monitoring systems. His presentation focused on the etiology of MG and MS and outcomes in broilers, breeders, as well as layers. He laid emphasis on treatment methods and effective molecules,

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PRESS RELEASE pharmacoki netics and pharmacodynamics of various molecules, possible antibiotic resistance, d o s e calculation, etc. He recalled that in the past MG was considered very pathogenic and hence official eradication programs were and are in place in many parts of the world, particularly in Europe, The USA and some parts of Latin America, leading to greatly reduced occurrences in those flocks.He also recalled that MS was always considered mildly pathogenic and therefore no mandatory eradication programs were p u t i n p l a c e , re s u l t i n g i n h i g h prevalence of MS globally to this day. Dr. De Gussem insisted that if focus was shifted to mycoplasma infection, most other diseases affecting poultry could also be easily addressed because those diseases already had CRD/ Mycoplasma infection as their gateway leading to CCRD in flocks. He therefore recommended that birds be treated with antibiotics from the very first day (early prevention) and treated again subsequently through their life cycle to achieve optimal or near optimal performance. He also touched upon the molecules like Tylosin, Tiamulin and Tilmicosin to be used in preventing, controlling& treating mycoplasma infection in addition to their dosing schedule for both MG and MS. The final speaker for the evening was Dr. Devender Hooda, Director-Sales & Technical, Huvepharma SEA (Pune) Pvt. Ltd. He is a qualified veterinarian, an IIMAhmadabad alumnus and a qualified pharmacist. He has a vast field experience 41

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and practical knowledge of the Indian poultry industry gathered from the travels through his working years. Dr. Hooda presented on the topic “Epidemiological impact of Mycoplasmosis – An Indian Case Study”. He started his presentation with a brief introduction of Huvepharma and the product segments the company operates in. In his presentation, the major emphasis was on Mycoplasma monitoring tools, My-Screen technical service and analysis of the data of the samples. His presentation covered Avian Mycoplasma Diagnosis with serology, culture, bioassay and PCR. It also covered sensitivity and specificity of the tests, Mycoplasma antibody response and sample size. He shared the data for the My-Screen technical service and samples analyzed from across India. He briefly explained about PCR and its protocol, material collection, collection of the Choanal and Tracheal swabs. He also shared with the audience the data gathered and analyzed for a year including number of farms screened, no. of sheds and kind of birds. He further elaborately analyzed in context with type of bird, flock wise analysis, shed wise analysis and prevalence of Mycoplasma gallisepticum and Mycoplasma synoviae along with limitations of the study and shared the learningfrom the study.

b e t t e r prevention programme and remain carrier for rest of their l i f e . Screening h e l p s clinicians to take better decisions”. He also suggested that the audience use My-Screen unique technical ser vice provided by Huvepharma, which will help the poultry industry to take necessary timely action and monitoring mycoplasma. This presentation was followed by Q&A session where the speakers enthusiastically addressed queries and d o u b t s r a i s e d b y s e v e r a l ke e n delegates. The sessions concluded with Closing Remarks by Mr. O.P. Singh. He not only summarized the presentations of both days, but also thanked every participant for their support and active involvement. He made special mention of the speakers who went to great lengths to communicate with the audience and keep them hooked. He encouraged the esteemed & knowledgeable audience to take the lead in establishing a safe food chain through healthy poultry in the interests of the poultry industry as well as the consumers at large. Finally, all the esteemed speakers were felicitated and presented with

He concluded his presentation by summarizing that “prevalence of MG and MS both is very high. MS is becoming more pathogenic than we thought before, laying ﬂocks need POULTRY PLANNER | VOL. 19 | No.09 | SEPTEMBER - 2017

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AMITY GLOBAL HR EXCELLENCE AWARD 2017 for HUVEPHARMA SEA

mementos in recognition of their invaluable service to the industry rendered through their speeches at RESCOM SUMMIT 2017. So also, every delegate was presented with mementos and tokens of appreciation along with a conference kit. The days ended with cultural night & elaborateGala dinner and a promise to return with something even better next time.

Huvepharma SEA (Pune) Pvt. Ltd., Pune, India was awarded the AMITY GLOBAL HR EXCELLENCE AWARD FOR BEST PERSONNEL MOTIVATION at the recently held 13th Amity Global HR Summit 2017 organized by Amity University, Uttar Pradesh, India.

The company's HR practices in global business development including information dissemination, forwarding looking HR processes and actively bringing together various stakeholders made the company eligible for this Award.

Huvepharma was nominated by the Embassy of Bulgaria in India for the Amity Global HR Excellence Awards 2017 for the exemplary and well thought out beneďŹ t and incentive programs that are a clear sign of appreciation & gratitude towards thriving employees and stakeholders, especially poultry farmers, feed millers, integrators and technocrats. Incentive strategies along with educational strategies initiated by Huvepharma like CEOs' Conclave, RESCOM Summit and services like MY-SCREEN promote motivation and create a distinctive connection towards the organisation.

Mr. O.P. Singh, MD, Huvepharma SEA received the Award from H. E. Mr. Petko Doykov, Ambassador of Bulgaria to India & Dr. Gurinder Singh, Group Vice Chancellor, Amity Universities & Director General, Amity International Business School on 31st August 2017.

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he big red hen clucked loudly from her roost inside the coop at City Sprouts community garden before strutting outside to join the rest of the flock in the fenced run, She literally just laid an egg,said Shannon Gennardo, explaining that chickens do indeed crow over such accomplishments, Gennardo tucked the egg into a container with the seven others she'd already collected that morning. City Sprouts, at 40th and Seward Streets, keeps the flock as part of its educational programming, taking the b i rd s to s c h o o l s a n d community programs. Gennardo, the garden's community engagement coordinator, also has a smaller flock at her nearby home that she keeps to provide fresh eggs. Both flocks figure into the recent boom in backyard poultry across the country, including in the Omaha a re a , A l o n g w i t h t h e boom, however, has come a crop of something most backyard farmers would prefer not to have salmonella, As of late July, the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had counted 961 cases of salmonella in 48 states linked to 10 separate multistate outbreaks of the bacterial infection in people who'd come into contact with live poultry in backyard flocks. It's the largest outbreak related to live poultry to date, according to the agency, involving more cases than in all of 2016. The 895 sickened in 2016 was the highest number linked to live poultry at that time, Nebraska has tallied 17 cases linked to the 2017 outbreak, and Iowa has recorded 20. To be sure, the numbers make up a small 43

percentage of each state's typical salmonella toll. Nebraska usually records about 300 cases from all sources in a given year. In Iowa, health ofﬁcials reported 776 cases last year and 619 in 2015, Dr. Tom Safranek, Nebraska's state epidemiologist, said additional awareness needs to be raised on all fronts when it comes to food safety and foodborne illness. But more people may know that they can pick up salmonella by eating improperly prepared poultry and eggs,

while fewer may be aware they can catch it by handling the birds, That's not to say folks shouldn't keep backyard birds, he said. But they need to know how to do it safely, You just have to be aware of the risks,Safranek said,Overall, it's good for our society to be close to the source of production of our food. You can't get closer to locally sourced, Gennardo agreed, noting that those who start backyard ﬂocks often spend a lot of time researching different types of birds and the kinds of eggs they

lay,But the safety part is not always at the forefront of people's minds she said, Even clean, healthy poultry may have salmonella germs in their droppings and on their bodies feathers, feet and beaks according to the CDC. The germs can get on coops, feed and water dishes and even plants and soil. People can pick them up on their hands, shoes and clothes and become infected when they put their hands in or around their mouths. Eggs can become contaminated, on the inside before the shells are formed or on the outside through contact with surfaces, To prevent infection, the agency advises washing hands with soap and water after touching live birds or anything else in their space or using hand sanitizer if soap and water aren't readily available,Poultry keepers should keep a separate set of shoes to wear while caring for birds,Live poultry should be kept out of the house, Gennardo said kids who visit City Sprouts stay outside the chicken coop, They have to use the hand sanitizer mounted on the outside of the pen at the end of their visit, regardless of whether they touch the birds, She wears a mask when she c l e a n s o u t t h e c o o p , At h o m e , Gennardo's children, ages 4 and 2, have to wash their hands after handling birds or eggs. Her 4-year-old enjoys helping to collect eggs,It's just a fun thing for them to do she said,It's a good responsibility, The family, however, treats the birds like livestock, not naming them or bringing them in the house, as some area poultry owners have been known to do. And her

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Ingredients Ÿ 3tablespoons olive oil Ÿ 1tablespoon minced onion Ÿ 1clove crushed garlic Ÿ 1teaspoon dried thyme Ÿ 1⁄2teaspoon salt Ÿ 1⁄2teaspoon ground black pepper Ÿ 1⁄2teaspoon dried rosemary, crushed Ÿ 1⁄4teaspoon ground sage Ÿ 1⁄4teaspoon dried marjoram Ÿ 1⁄8teaspoon hot pepper sauce Directions Make basting sauce by combining olive oil, grated onion, garlic, salt and pepper, herbs, and hot pepper sauce,Turn chicken breasts in sauce to coat thoroughly,Place skin side up in a shallow baking dishCover,Roast at 425 degrees, basting occasionally with pan drippings for about 35-45 minutes,Remove to warm platter, spoon pan juices over, and sprinkle with fresh parsley.

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