Dutch farmers learning to live without beak trimming

Beak treatments will formally be banned in the Netherlands from next year, but the market has moved ahead of legislation. Poultry World discovers how farms are managing the change. From the beginning of September, members of the Netherlands’ largest egg assurance scheme, IKB EI, will not be permitted to keep hens with treated beaks. This also includes infrared beak trimming. To this end, Avined decided to anticipate market demands as much as possible. The German KAT (Association for Controlle