New Publications

Embryo development and hatchery practice in poultry production

Edited by Dr Nick French

It is widely recognised that developments in the chick embryo have a profound effect on hatchability and the subsequent health and productive capacity of poultry. With a stronger focus on welfare, prevention of disease and more sustainable poultry production, understanding these early stages has never been more crucial.

This book addresses the key stages and factors in embryo development in poultry to optimise hatchability and chick health.

The book also reviews the role of parental and environmental factors on embryo development and skeletal growth, as well as the effects of incubation on chick health and development, including factors such as temperature, light exposure and humidity.

WPSA members can purchase the book with a 20% discount by using the code EMB20. This discount code expires 31^st July 2023 and can be applied to all Poultry Science books in the Burleigh Dodds series.

Improving poultry meat quality

Edited by Massimiliano Petracci (University of Bologna) and Mario Estévez (Universidad de Extremadura)

Recent years have seen a rise in the number of consumers wishing to know more about the journey their food takes from farm to fork. Consumer expectations of the sensory and nutritional qualities of food products have increased as a result. Poultry producers and processors must balance these quality parameters with other requirements such as yield and animal welfare.

Improving poultry meat quality addresses the wealth of recent research on the genetic and environmental factors affecting the development of quality traits in poultry meat and their potential implications for breeding, husbandry and postharvest processing. This collection also reviews recent advances in understanding colour, texture and flavour development in poultry meat.

A particular focus is coverage of key poultry myopathies associated with modern broiler production such as white striping, wooden breast and pale soft exudative meat. The book considers their causes, impacts on meat quality and how these defects can be prevented or overcome

WPSA members can purchase the book with a 20% discount by using the code PMEAT20. This discount code expires 28^th February 2023.

Optimising poultry flock health

Diseases remain a significant burden to poultry production and its future, with outbreaks of disease resulting in catastrophic financial losses to the sector. Whilst it is widely recognised that vaccines have a major role in inducing protection, they can only be considered as part of the solution to this rapidly growing problem.

Optimising poultry flock health instead reviews ways of optimising preventative measures to reduce the risk of disease in flocks. The book reviews the wealth of recent research on the mechanisms of transmission for infectious diseases and how this understanding can be used to improve poultry flock health.

By showing how poultry flock health can be optimised at different stages of production, the book showcases the extent of preventative measures available to farmers and producers, as well as how these measures can be implemented effectively to protect their flocks against disease.

Farmer field schools for family poultry producers

A growing number of poultry farmer field schools (FFS) are being implemented in developing countries by a wide range of actors. Experience over the past two decades has shown that good-quality facilitation and learning activities are key to the success and long-term sustainability of poultry FFS.

This manual provides practical information and activities that help facilitators establish and implement good-quality FFS. It focuses on working with women and men poultry producers to sustainably enhance production, productivity and marketing in any family poultry production system, ranging from extensive to small-scale intensified, in line with producers' aspirations and local conditions. The first module of the manual covers poultry FFS establishment and learning activities, and the second provides "need-to-know" information on poultry production and health and FFS facilitation.

The Illustrated Egg Handbook - 2nd Edition

By Ayuko Kashimori

The Illustrated Egg Handbook is a colourful guide that gives you a wide range of information on the structure and quality of eggs, as well as what can go wrong. Full of detailed illustrations and tables, this handbook is a perfect guide for people who want to gain knowledge in egg production and quality or even someone that just wants to know more about the inside of an egg.  This second edition contains corrections, extra information and easier to carry with a paperback cover.

Chicken Nutrition - A guide for nutritionists and poultry professionals

By Rick Kleyn

Chicken Nutrition covers the underlying theory of poultry nutrition rather than providing step-by-step methodology for formulating poultry diets. If the underlying principles are understood, it makes it easier to recognise problems within this field and to be equipped to solve any problems.

Beginning as a guide for an introductory course in chicken nutrition this has developed into a full book detailing chicken nutrition. It covers nutrients, water, energy, protein, vitamins and minerals, as well as detailing chicken anatomy and the health of the birds. It goes into more detail regarding enzymes, scientific process and effective feed formulation.

The objective of the book is to teach the golden rules of poultry nutrition and the information is suitable for poultry producers and practitioners, as well as university students.

Broiler Nutrition: Masterclass

By Rick Kleyn and Peter Chrystal

Broiler Nutrition serves as a follow on from Chicken Nutrition, published in 2013, which was intended to function as an introduction to poultry nutrition for nutritionists and poultry professionals.
It is a logical successor and represents a collaboration between two university classmates, Rick Kleyn & Peter Chrystal, both of whom work as commercial nutritionists.
This book is focused purely on the science of feeding rapidly-growing broiler chickens. The rapid developments in both the genotype of the bird; in production and commercial systems; changing consumer perceptions and demands; and advances in our understanding of the various aspects of broiler nutrition have meant that – as an industry – we are required to rethink many of our current practices.  

Understanding the behaviour and improving the welfare of chickens

Editor: Dr Christine Nichol

With rising consumer concerns about the welfare of farm animals, such as chickens, there is a growing urgency for the livestock production sector to ensure that welfare standards are met throughout the supply chain, from breeding to slaughter.

Understanding the behaviour and improving the welfare of chickens offers a comprehensive summary on the wealth of recent research completed on understanding chicken behaviour and discusses how best to use this rich body of knowledge to optimise welfare management of broilers and layers. This collection features expert insights into the use of wearable, video and acoustic technologies as a means of monitoring behaviour, as well as improving current welfare protocols.

With its distinguished editor and team of leading experts in their fields, Understanding the behaviour and improving the welfare of chickens will be a standard text for university researchers in poultry and veterinary science as well as ethology. The book will also be an authoritative reference for government and other agencies responsible for the poultry sector and farm animal welfare, as well as companies involved in rearing chickens and processing poultry meat and eggs.

Breeder Signals - A practical guide to optimal management of broiler breeders

Breeder Signals is part of the Poultry Signals series©.

‘Broiler breeders require full attention. Two sexes with completely different requirements is like managing two different species in one flock.’

Breeder Signals is essential for all people working in the poultry meat chain as breeder farm managers, farm workers, advisors, veterinarians, students, etc.

Advances in Poultry Genetics and Genomics

Editors: Dr Samuel E. Aggrey, Dr Huaijun Zhou, Dr Michèle Tixier-Boichard and Dr Douglas Rhoads

Advances in poultry genetics and genomics provides a comprehensive review of the recent developments in poultry genetics, breeding and genomics, focussing on the improvement of functional traits to build resilience, the use of genomic selection and its application in breeding improved layers and broilers, as well as the sector’s emerging trends such as epigenetics and genome editing.

Poultry Quality Evaluation
1st Edition
Quality Attributes and Consumer Values

Editors: Massimiliano Petracci Cecile Berri

Poultry Quality Evaluation: Quality Attributes and Consumer Values provides a new reference source that covers these aspects with the same scientific authority as texts on traditional poultry meat quality values.

Click here to download the book flyer.

Achieving sustainable production of poultry meat Volume 3
Health and welfare

Edited by: Todd Applegate, University of Georgia, USA

Endorsement:
'Increasing food production to address the nutritional nees of an expanding world population requires a combined effort from eperts in genetics, nutrition, health and welfare. The well-known eidtor has assembled world leaders in these fields to communicate their detailed knowledge for the benefit of the research community'.
Robert L. Taylor, Jr, Ph.D., Director and Professor, Division of Animal and Nutritional Sciences, West Virginia University, USA

Achieving sustainable production of poultry meat Volume 2
Breeding and nutrition

Edited by: Todd Applegate, University of Georgia, USA

Endorsement:
'The proposed list of authors is impressive and this will certainly be an excellent publication in poultry science'.
Professor Mike Lilburn, Ohio State University, USA

Egg Signals
a practical guide to improving egg quality

‘Managing egg quality requires keeping an eye on the details.’

These details are the main issue in the newest publication of Roodbont Publishers: Egg Signals by Mr. Piet Simons.

Together with the book launch a new website is aired as well: www.Eggsignals.com which offers additional egg information. Egg knowledge beyond the first shell. Feel free to have a look!

The Illustrated Egg Handbook

We are pleased to announce that a book titled the Illustrated Egg Handbook was released. Written in English, this handbook provides various examples characteristic of chicken eggs together with a great number of photographs. It gives easy-to-understand explanations on the basic knowledge of eggs and the developmental process of abnormal eggs with illustrations and photos and is useful to anyone in the egg-related industry, ranging from egg producers to retailers.

If you are interested in buying this book, please send an e-mail to .

Achieving sustainable production of poultry meat Volume 1
Safety, quality and sustainabiligy

Edited by: Prof S.C. Ricke, USA

Endorsement:
'This is a timely book that provides not only a valuable account of modern food safety management in poultry production and processing, and enhancement of product quality, but also covers the key elements of sustainable production systems for a world now seriously threatened by climate change. With its appropriate international scope, Professor Ricke’s book will make a major contribution to this important subject and become essential reading for all those concerned.'
Geoffrey Mead, Emeritus Professor, The Royal Veterinary College, University of London, UK

Achieving sustainable production of eggs Volume 2
Animal welfare and sustainabiligy

Edited by: Prof Juliet R. Roberts, USA

Endorsement:
'The proposed content of the book is excellent - an outstanding and comprehensive compilation of current knowledge by the world's foremost experts, on a topic that is highly relevant. This will be a must-have reference resource for egg producers, poultry scientists, food scientists, government regulatory agencies, and students. Congratulations - this is a major scholarly contribution to your colleagues and peers everywhere.'
Emeritus Professor Robert F. Wideman, Center of Excellence for Poultry Science, University of Arkansas, USA

Achieving sustainable production of eggs Volume 1
Safety and quality

Edited by: Prof Juliet R. Roberts, USA

Endorsement:
'The proposed content of the book is excellent - an outstanding and comprehensive compilation of current knowledge by the world's foremost experts, on a topic that is highly relevant. This will be a must-have reference resource for egg producers, poultry scientists, food scientists, government regulatory agencies, and students. Congratulations - this is a major scholarly contribution to your colleagues and peers everywhere.'
Emeritus Professor Robert F. Wideman, Center of Excellence for Poultry Science, University of Arkansas, USA