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Chicken mortality was studied in 24 randomly selected smallholder flocks in one village in Yucatan, Mexico between July and December 1993. Each family received a package of 10 to 12 chicks of 3 weeks of age. Approximately half of the chicks were purebred and the remainder were crosses produced by mating exotic with local breeds. All smallholders were visited twice a week. Feeding and management (except vaccination and medication) were left to smallholders. Data were processed by Chi-square, Mantel-Haenzel test and survival analysis. Before reaching 140 days of age 43.2% of the birds died. The highest mortality was observed during the 113 to 140 days of age period and the lowest was in the period between 22 and 56 days of age. Of all birds, 10.5% died from coccidiosis and 7.6% from Marek's disease. Of the risk factors investigated only medication and genotype showed significant effects on mortality. The effect of genotype was significant up to 112 days of age (P < 0.05). Crossbred birds lived longer than purebred; independently, medicated birds lived longer than non-medicated birds.

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The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of COVID‐19 lockdown on monitoring and glycaemic control of people with type 2 diabetes (T2DM) in a Spanish population. This prospective cohort study focused on patients with T2DM from a Spanish cohort followed since 2017, with at least one HbA1c determination since the start of the pandemic. A total of 246 patients was included; 45.9% (113) had at least one HbA1c measurement during the pandemic and, in this case, we used the most recent one. The HbA1c mean value increased from 7.37% before the pandemic to 7.43% (p = 0.63). Those patients with previous HbA1c ≥ 8.5% were the ones whose glycaemic controlled worsened: uncontrolled patients increased from 10.5% to 28.6% (p < 0.05), relative risk 1.65. In conclusion, nine months after the pandemic start, less than a half of the T2DM patients in our Spanish cohort had at least one HbA1c measurement. Glycaemic control was similar when comparing before versus after the pandemic start, although those patients who were previously poorly controlled had a 1.65 higher risk of worsening their glycaemic control compared to the rest. Copyright © 2022 John Wiley & Sons.