Broilers: challenging times demand focus on details

Change was in the air at this year’s Northern Broiler Conference in North Yorkshire, with topics on the agenda ranging from gut health and coccidiosis control for slower-growing broilers, to insects as animal feed and coping with economic pressures. Future research and development in slower-growing breeds will focus on the European Chicken Commitment and the Dutch ‘Beter Leven’ (Better Life label) 56-day winter garden production system in the Netherlands. James Bentley, Hubbard Breeder