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U.S.D.A); “Broiler Hatchery” and “Chicken and Eggs” (National Agricultural Statistics Service, Agricultural Statistics Board, U.S.D.A.) © 1999 Bayer Corporation. Articles may be reprinted with permission. For information or permission to reprint, contact Sue Clanton, (706) 542-1904.
Issue 30 October 1999
Published by the Department of Avian Medicine, University of Georgia
Editor: Charles Hofacre, Associate Professor,
Department of Avian Medicine
Dr. John P. Donahoe
President,
Maine Biological
Laboratories
Feed cost/ton w/o color ($)
Feed cost/lb meat (¢)
Days to 4.6 lbs
Med. cost/ton (¢)
Chick cost/lb (¢)
Vac-Med cost/lb (¢)
WB & 1/2 parts condemn. cost/lb
% mortality
Sq. Ft. @ placement
Lbs./Sq. Ft.
Down time (days)
Data for week ending 9/18/99
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L arge chemical companies have existed in the U.S.and on other continents since the 1800’s. One of the large volume product categories developed by these companies was agricultural herbicides and pesticides. These products originally had nothing to do with animal health but it was realized that the active ingredients in some of the products could have applications in animal health, for example, as ectoparasiticides.This led to the development of entirely new classes of animal health products at a time when the veterinary profession was making early strides against infectious and parasitic diseases of livestock and pets. This accounts for the presence today of certain large chemical companies in the animal health field.
Broiler Performance Data (Region)
Live Production Cost
SW Midwest Southeast
Mid-
Atlantic
S-Central
Poultry...The Largest
Population...
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Broiler Performance Data
(Region)
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Broiler Performance Data
(Company)
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Broiler Whole Bird
Condemnations (Region)
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Broiler Whole Bird
Condemnations (Company)
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Excerpts... “Turkey Hatchery,
Broiler Hatchery” and
Chicken and Eggs...”
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Special Announcements
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Meetings, Seminars and
Conventions
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118.83
10.93
46
2.72
3.94
0.05
0.22
3.69
0.80
5.89
14
112.81
10.84
44
1.82
3.70
0.02
0.24
5.08
0.76
7.05
10
126.16
12.09
44
3.32
3.71
0.10
0.23
4.48
0.80
6.44
9
131.06
12.94
45
2.98
3.55
0.09
0.22
4.61
0.78
6.77
12
124.00
11.86
45
2.53
3.68
0.10
0.28
4.80
0.85
6.38
11
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Poultry...The Largest Population of the Major Animal Health Markets
Continued from page 1
Also existing in the 1800’s were the beginnings of various industrial fermentation companies. With the discovery of penicillin, several of them got involved in antibiotic production for treatment of human infectious diseases. Once again, it was found that some of these products may have application in animal health settings. With the recognition that some of these products were poorly absorbed from the gut but caused growth promotion in food animals, an entire large volume feed additive industry was created. This explains certain large pharmaceutical company’s involvement to this day in animal health.
Today, the European Union accounts for 25% of all animal health sales and the United States for 23%. No other single country is close to these numbers, the next being Japan at 6%. Interestingly, Brazil is next at 5%. A breakdown of world animal population estimates looks like this:
Sheep . . . . . . . . . . . 850M
It can be clearly seen that poultry is the largest population of the the major animal health markets. Equine is the smallest. A study of the major animal health segments of the industry revealed the following:
Beef . . . . . . . . . . . . 800M
Dairy . . . . . . . . . . . . 200M
Pigs. . . . . . . . . . . . . 750M
Cats . . . . . . . . . . . . 118M
Dogs . . . . . . . . . . . . 115M
Horses . . . . . . . . . . 60M
Chicken . . . . . . . . . . 23,000M
Source: PJB publications,1998
Anthelmintics . . . . . . . . 13%
Antibiotics . . . . . . . . . . 16%
Anticoccidials . . . . . . . . 3%
Ectoparasiticides . . . . . 8%
Biologicals . . . . . . . . . . 15%
Feed Additives . . . . . . . 14%
Nutritionals. . . . . . . . . . 25%
Others . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6%
Source: PJB publications,1998
Broiler Performance Data (Company)
Live Production Cost
Average
Co.
Feed cost/ton w/o color ($)
Feed cost/lb meat (¢)
Days to 4.6 lbs
Med. cost/ton (¢)
Chick cost/lb (¢)
Vac-Med cost/lb (¢)
WB & 1/2 parts condemn. cost/lb
% mortality
Sq. Ft. @ placement
Lbs./Sq. Ft.
Down time (days)
124.47
11.87
45
2.78
3.76
0.08
0.25
4.46
0.80
6.37
12
Data for week ending 9/18/99
Top
25%
119.27
10.95
45
2.04
3.72
0.03
0.15
3.52
0.78
6.21
13
Top 5
Cos.
114.50
10.83
44
2.11
3.44
0.03
0.17
3.63
0.78
6.82
14
Broiler Whole Bird Condemnation (Region)
SW
Mid-
West
% Septox
% Airsac
% I.P.
% Leukosis
% Bruise
% Other
% Total
% 1/2 parts condemnations
0.279
0.104
0.064
0.004
0.011
0.014
0.476
0.397
0.409
0.080
0.115
0.002
0.010
0.008
0.624
0.339
Data for week ending 9/18/99
S.
East
0.178
0.235
0.148
0.006
0.014
0.026
0.608
0.303
Mid-
Atlantic
S.
Central
0.330
0.115
0.098
0.028
0.011
0.010
0.553
0.295
0.276
0.282
0.339
0.003
0.016
0.009
0.725
0.409

Poultry...The Largest Population of the Major Animal Health Markets
Continued from page 2
It can be seen that biologicals is approximately the same as antibiotics in importance today but biologicals are growing and antibiotics are shrinking in the overall world market. This is due to concerns about antibiotic resistance and to subsequent regulatory pressure on this class of animal health products.
Be aware. A study of the top 20 world wide animal health companies reveals some interesting facts. Potentially problematical for the poultry industry is that only 2 of the top 20 animal health companies are devoted strictly to animal health alone and are not part of a larger corporation primarily devoted to human health or crop protection.
Unfortunately. those two companies rank 19th and 20th on the list.
13
14
15
16
9
10
11
12
17
18
19
20
7
8
5
6
3
4
1
2
HOFFMAN-LA ROCHE . . . . . . . . $1.5B
MERIAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $1.4B
PFIZER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $1.3B
HILLS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $1.0B
BAYER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $0.9B
BASF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $0.8B
FORT DODGE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $0.7B
RHONE POULENC . . . . . . . . . . . $0.7B
NOVARTIS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $0.6B
SCHERING-PLOUGH . . . . . . . . . $0.6B
ELANCO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $0.6B
HOECHST ROUSSEL VET . . . . . $0.5B
IAMS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $0.5B
PHARMACIA & UPJOHN . . . . . . . $0.4B
NOVUS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $0.4B
INTERVET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $0.4B
NUTRO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $0.3B
BOEHRINGER INGELHEIM . . . . . $0.3B
IDEXX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $0.3B
VIRBAC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $0.2B
Source: Animal Pharm., 1998
The recent acquisition of Hoechst Roussel Vet by Intervet has vaulted Intervet to the number 5 position for 1999. It is anticipated that the pressure on antibiotics could result in continued consolidation of animal health companies. What will be the impact to the animal health industry for new products and services caused by this shrinking in the number of companies?

Turkey Eggs in Incubators Up 6 Percent From Last Year
According to the most recent National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS)
report Turkey eggs in incubators on September 1,1999, in the United States totaled 28.7 million, up 6 percent from September 1 a year ago. Eggs in
incubators were down 10 percent from the August 1 total of 31.9 million.
Regional changes from the previous year were: East North Central, up 2
percent; West North Central, up 6 percent; North and South Atlantic, up 5 percent; South Central, up 6 percent, and West up 30 percent.
Poults Placed During August Up 1 Percent
The 24.8 million poults placed during August 1999 in the United States were up 1 percent from the number placed during the same month a year ago. Placements were down 7 percent from the July total of 26.8 million. Regional changes from the previous year were: East North Central, up 2 percent; West
North Central, up 8 percent; North and South Atlantic, unchanged; South Central, down 2 percent; and West, down 15 percent.
Broiler Eggs Set In 15 Selected States Up 2 Percent
Commercial hatcheries in the 15-State weekly program set in incubators 167 million eggs during the week ending
September 25,1999. This was down slightly from the eggs set the corresponding week a year earlier. Average hatchability for chicks hatched during the week was 81 percent.
Broiler Chicks Placed Up 2 Percent
Broiler growers in the 15-State weekly program placed 139 million chicks for meat production during the week ending
September 25, 1999. Placements were up 2 percent from the comparable week in 1998. Cumulative placements from
January 3. 1999, through September 25, 1999, were 5.48 billion, up 3 percent from the same period a year earlier.
August Egg Production Up 4 Percent
U.S. egg production totaled 6.96 billion during August 1999, up 4 percent from the 6.69 billion produced in 1998.
Production included 5.87 billion table eggs and 1.10 billion hatching eggs, of which 1.03 billion were broiler-type and
65.0 million were egg-type. The total number of layers during August 1999 averaged 320 million, up 3 percent from the total average number of layers during August 1998. August egg production per 100 layers was 2,175 eggs, up fractionally from 2,165 eggs in August 1998.
All layers in the U.S. on September 1, 1999, totaled 321 million, up 4 percent from a year ago. The 321 million layers consisted of 263 million layers producing table or commercial type eggs, 55.9 million layers producing broiler-type hatching eggs, and 2.68 million layers producing egg-type hatching eggs. Rate of lay per day on September 1, 1999, averaged 71.0 eggs per 100 layers, up 2 percent from the 69.3 a year ago.
Laying flocks in the 30 major egg producing states produced 6.54 billion eggs during August, up 4 percent from August
1998. The average number of layers during August, at 301 million was up 3 percent from a year earlier.
Egg-Type Chicks Hatched Up 6 Percent
Egg-type chicks hatched during August totaled 35.5 million, up 6 percent from August 1998. Eggs in incubators totaled 35.3 million on September 1, 1999, up 6 percent from a year ago.
Domestic placements of egg-type pullet chicks for future hatchery supply flocks by leading breeders totaled 318,000 during August 1999, up 72 percent from August 1998.
Broiler Hatch Up 4 Percent
The August 1999 hatch of broiler-type chicks, at 741 million, was up 4 percent from August of the previous year.
There were 620 million eggs in incubators on September 1, 1999, up 2 percent from a year earlier.
Leading breeders placed 7.67 million broiler-type chicks for future domestic hatchery supply flocks during August
1999, up 8 percent from August 1998.

The University of Georgia Foundation and the Department of Avian Medicine in the College of
Veterinary Medicine are extremely pleased to announce the campaign to establish an endowed chair for The Caswell S. Eidson Eminent Scholar in Avian Medicine. The funds are a gift/pledge from Dr. Hiram Lasher, Lasher Associates, Millsboro, Delaware in memory of his former colleague,
Dr. Caswell S. Eidson.
Dr. Caswell Eidson was a faculty member in the UGA College of Veterinary Medicine for over twenty years. A graduate of the University, he went on to become an Alumni Foundation
Distinguished Professor of Avian Medicine and acting director of the College’s Poultry Diagnostic and Research Center. His research led to development of a freeze-dried vaccine against Marek’s disease in poultry, which continues to save the poultry industry millions of dollars annually worldwide. Dr. Eidson died in 1983 at the age of forty-five after a long illness.
This gift is the second major commitment that Dr. Lasher and his wife, Bertha, have made to the
College. IN 1998 he established the Caswell S. Eidson Memorial Scholarship in the Department of
Avian Medicine with a gift of $25,000. Income from the scholarship endowment will help graduate students in Avian Medicine.
The recent Lasher gift/pledge of $375,000 initiates efforts by the College to secure matching funds. A total of $1,500,000 is needed to fund the endowment for the Eminent Scholar. The College has already begun work in the project to secure the matching funds. When $375,000 has been raised to match Dr. Lasher’s gift, the University will request that the Georgia Research Alliance contribute the final $750,000 needed to complete the project. The Georgia Research Alliance has expressed an interest in the project.
Department chairman Dr. Stan Kleven stated gifts such as the Lasher’s help us attract, recruit, and retain top-level faculty and students in the College of Veterinary Medicine and are the ultimate expression of the Lasher’s dedication to the poultry industry.
Broiler Whole Bird Condemnation (Company)
Average
Co.
Top
25%
Top
5 Co.’s
% Septox
% Airsac
% I.P.
% Leukosis
% Bruise
% Other
% Total
% 1/2 parts condemnations
0.287
0.173
0.111
0.011
0.014
0.014
0.609
0.374
Data for week ending 9/18/99
0.236
0.052
0.045
0.003
0.015
0.006
0.356
0.239
0.153
0.042
0.008
0.004
0.016
0.025
0.368
0.316
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Oct. 13-14: N.C. Turkey Industry
Days Conference, Brownstone
Hotel, Raleigh, N.C. Contact:
Jesse L. Grimes, Extension turkey specialist, North Carolina State
University, Scott Hall/Campus Box
7608, Raleigh, N.C. 27695.
Phone: 919-515-5406
Oct. 10-13: Eleventh Australian
Poultry & Feed Convention, Royal
Pines Resort, Gold Coast, Australia.
Contact:The Convention Secretary,
PO Box 1384, North Sidney NSW
2059, Australia.
Fax: +61 2 9925 0627.
Oct. 17-20: Workshop on Metabolic
Disorders in Poultry, Izmir, Turkey.
Contact; Congress Secretariat, Ege
University, Faculty of Agiculture, Dept.
of Animal Science, 35100 Izmir,
Turkey. Fax: +90 232 388 18 64.
Oct. 20-22: National Meeting on
Poultry Health & Processing,
Sheraton Fountainbleau Hotel, Ocean
City, Maryland, USA. Contact: Sharon
Webb, Delmarva Poultry Industry,
Inc., RD 6, Box 47, Georgetown, DE
19947-9575, USA.
Fax: +1 302-856-1845.
Oct. 27-28: N.C. Broiler Breeder
Hatchery Management Conference,
Iredell county Extension Office,
Stateswille, N.C. Details from Dr.
Michael J. Wineland, North Carolina
State University, College of
Agriculture and Life Sciences,
Extension Poultry Science, Scott
Hall/Campus Box 7608, Raleigh, NC
27695; Phone (919) 515-5529
Oct. 31-Nov. 2: 33rd Annual UK
Poultry Industry Conference, Stakis
Blackpool Hotel, Blackpool,
Lancashire, U.K. Contact; Tony
Warner, Sec. 011-44-1952-605680.
Nov. 3-5: Livexpo Shanghai ‘99,
Shanghai International Exhibition for Production & Processing of
Livestock and Poultry, Shanghai
International Exhibition Center, P.R.
China. Contact: Intex Shanghai Co.
Ltd., 88 Loushanguan Rd., Shanghai
200335, P.R. China. Mr. David Hong,
Miss Lisa Chen. Phone: +86 21
62755800; Fax: +86 21 62757210.
Nov. 7-10: Expoaviga, International
Poultry & Lifestock Technology
Show, Montjuic Trade Fair Center,
Fira de Barcelona, Spain. Contact: F.
Xavier Castells, Manager, Expoaviga,
Avda. Reina Mo.Christina, s/n 08004
Barcelona, Spain.
Fax: +34 93 2332602
Nov. 9-10: Carolina Poultry
Nutrition Conference and Soya
Symposium, Sheraton Imperial
Hotel, Research Traingle Park, N.C.
Details from Mr. OwenRobertson,
2116 Northshoreline Drive, Sanford,
NC 27330. Phone: (919) 776-3054.
Nov. 9-12: VIV-Europe, International
Trade Fair on Intensive Animal
Production, Jaarbeurs Complex,
Utrecht, Netherlands. Contact: VIV
Secretariat, Royal Dutch Jaarbeurs,
P.O. Box 8500, 3503 RM Utrecht,
Netherlands. Fax: +31 30 29 55 585.
Nov. 16-17: Alabama
Breeder/Hatchery Workshop,
Auburn University Hotel & Conference
Center, Auburn, AL. Details from
Alabama Poultry & Egg Association,
P.O. Box 240, Montgomery, AL
36101-0240. Phone: (334) 265-2732;
Fax: (334) 265-0008.
Nov. 24-27: International
Conference on Sustainable Animal
Production, Health & Environment,
CCS Haryana Agricultural University,
Hisar, India. Contact: Prof. Dr. R.A.
Singh, College of Animal Sciences,
CCS Haryana, Agricultural University,
Hisar 125004, India.
Fax: +91 1662 34952
Nov. 28-December 1: EUROTIER
International Exhibition for
Livestock & Poultry Production,
Hannover, Germany. Contact: Daniel
M. Koning, DLG, Eschborner
Landstrasse 122, D-60489 Frankfurt,
Germany. Fax: +49 69 24788-113
Jan. 6-8: National Turkey
Federation Annual Convention,
Hilton Walt Disney World Hotel,
Orlando, FL. Contact NTF at
(202) 898-0100
Jan. 16-21: Feed Tour 2000 — Watt
USA Feed Tour 2000, visiting top feed mills in southeastern states plus IPE
2000 in Atlanta, Georgia USA.
Contact: CindyDitzler, Feed Tour
2000, 122 SouthWesley Ave., Mt.
Morris, IL 61054-1497, USA,
Fax: +1 815-734-4201; e-mail: wattfeedtour@hotmail.com; website: www.wattnet.com
Jan. 17-18: Southern Poultry
Science Society Annual Meeting,
Atlanta, Georgia, Contact: Dr. Gene
Pesti, Department of Poultry Science,
Livestock and Poultry Building,
University of Georgia, Athens, GA
30602 USA, Phone: +1 706-542-
1321; Fax: +1 706-542-1827.
Jan. 19-21: 2000 International
Poultry Exposition, Georgia World
Congress Centre, Atlanta, Georgia,
USA. Contact: US Poultry & Egg
Association, 1530 Cooledge Road,
Tucker, Georgia 30084, USA. Fax: +1
770 493-9257
March 15-16: 29th Annual Midwest
Poultry Federation Convention,
RiverCentre, St. Paul, MN. Contact:
Laura Ginsburg at 651-646-4553;
Fax: 651-646-4554.
March 29-30: Nebraska Poultry
Industries Annual Convention, New
World Inn, Highway 30 and 81 South,
Columbus, NE. Contact: Nebraska
Poultry Industries, Inc., A103 Animal
Sciences, University of Nebraska,
P.O. Box 830908, Lincoln, NE 63583-
0908. Phone: 403-472-2051.
April 18-21: VIV China, International
Trade Fair for Intensive Animal
Production and Processing. Contact:
Mr. Richard de Boer, Product
Manager VIV Royal Dutch Jaarbeurs,
PO Box 8500, 3503 RM Utecht, The
Netherlands, Fax: +31 30 295 5709.
July 2-6: Xth International
Congress on Animal Hygiene,
Maastricht, The Netherlands.
Contact: Royal Netherlands
Veterinary Association, PO Box
14031, NL-3508 SB Utrecht, The
Netherlands. Fax: +31 30 251 1787.