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If you have a few thousand chickens running around, how do you know if some disease is starting? In antibiotic-free poultry raising, it is extremely important that we catch problems fast.   By the time the chicken shows obvious signs, the disease is well advanced and mortality can be high. One of the fastest way we know of, especially if we are relying on workers, is to go like this first thing in the morning: Farmer: How’s the chickens in Field Number 10? Worker: OK, they are eating and running around. Farmer: Are the eyes round? Round Eyes...

Being able to perform necropsy   of dead chickens and to identify diseases is crucial for the success of a chicken farm. Delays in disease identification can lead to outbreaks resulting in high mortality and economic losses. It is absolutely necessary for detail records to be kept from Day 0 until all the chickens are sold, for each batch.    Detail records will enable us to...