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Polish poultry producers are keeping volume up, but aren t able to make prices on their export markets. Photo: Michel Zoeter
29-10-2020 | News

Covid-19 pandemic costs Polish poultry export dearly

Hens usually produce perfect eggs, but when there is something off, egg quality is often the first thing that suffers. Photo: Dreamstime, Tsekhmister
28-10-2020 | Article

How to identify and act upon egg abnormalities?

Chicken meat is the most popular meat for Thai consumers. Photo: Chillimedia
28-10-2020 | News

Thailand: Poor demand, chicken inventory record

Researchers studied the DNA of more than 700 indigenous African village chickens from 2 distinct Ethiopian ecotypes. Photo: Twan Wiermans
28-10-2020 | Article

Research heralds better poultry for sub-Saharan Africa

The current yearly Poulet du Faso production in Burkina is around 1.3 million day-old chicks. Photo: Ceva
27-10-2020 | News

Crossbreed chicken increases production 100-fold

Photo: Eric Delanghe
26-10-2020 | Article

Biosecurity by military design

Using flies to turn waste into protein for animal feed is a process that is ready to scale up. Photo: Henk Riswick
26-10-2020 | News

Generous funding for emission reducing poultry initiatives

Brazilian researchers look into the possibility to turn poultry bone waste into a green biodiesel. Photo: Mark Pasveer
23-10-2020 | News

Poultry bones turned into green fuel

During the first 8 months of the year, Rosselhozbank issued Rub47.4 billion (US$650 million) of loans to poultry exporters. Photo: Shutterstock
23-10-2020 | News

Russian poultry exporters: growth in Saudi Arabia & Africa

Growing problems with antibiotic resistance and increasing pressure from the general public have led to regulations which prohibit the use of growth promoters or antibiotics in turkeys. Photo: Marcel van Hoorn
22-10-2020 | Article

Functional oils as alternative growth promoters in turkeys

The lower stocking densities, slower growing breeds and enrichments all key elements of the ECC were far more welfare friendly than the EU s Broiler Directive. Photo: Herbert Wiggerman
21-10-2020 | News

European Commission criticised for its welfare position

A high respiratory frequency is often a good sign the birds is trying to loose heat. Photo: Marcel Berendsen
21-10-2020 | Article

How to prevent heat stress?

The growth in chicken meat consumption is expected to resume with the anticipated 2021 economic recovery. Photo: Koos Groenewold
21-10-2020 | News

EU-27 poultry market update