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Growing adoption of in-ovo sexing

15-07-2024 | Article

Growing adoption of in-ovo sexing

The consumption of eggs in France grew by 5.2% in the first few months of this year. Photo: Canva<span class=""> </span>

05-07-2024 | News

French egg producers want to keep up with growing demand

Gary Ford, British Egg Industry Council chief executive, said: “The British egg industry is one of British farming’s great success stories.” Photo: Canva

04-07-2024 | News

BEIC launches manifesto for a stronger British egg industry

Too much protein is costly and bad for the environment, too little eats into production performance. Photo: Jan Willem Schouten

24-06-2024 | Article

Optimal protein diet improves egg production and reproductive tract morphology

It is advised that nest box are comfortable, quiet and enclosed for the hen. Photo: Canva

17-06-2024 | News

Avoiding floor eggs in cage-free housing systems

"If a sufficient number of cage farms in Slovakia are not reconstructed by 2025, there is a real risk that eggs from Slovakia could be gradually replaced by foreign suppliers in international retail chains," says Daniel Molnár, director of the Poultry Union of Slovakia. Photo: Canva

13-06-2024 | News

Dark clouds pile above the Slovak poultry industry

Stuart Bird, Bird Bros production director: “There is an increasing number of barn systems operating successfully across the UK and we can see the benefits this model provides.” Photo: Canva

07-06-2024 | News

From colony to barn eggs – a UK company’s vision

The changes to free-range egg marketing laws follow detailed consultations and will enable eggs to be labelled as free-range instead of barn when laying poultry throughout the duration of mandatory avian influenza housing measures. Photo: Canva

28-05-2024 | News

Gains achieved for eggs farmers at Farm to Fork summit

Tom Elliott, founder and managing director of the Eggsell Marketing Cooperative, said he believes there is real momentum in white egg production. Photo: Canva

23-05-2024 | News

Perspectives around the future of white eggs

Avian influenza

Gordon Hickman, head of the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs’ (Defra) exotic disease control division, said that while the 2025/6 season had seen substantial losses, the decision to put in housing measures much earlier than in previous years seems to have successful. Photo: Supplied

28-05 | News

Meeting the ongoing challenge of avian influenza in the UK

The government is working together with the poultry sector on a plan to make vaccination against avian influenza mandatory for laying hen farms. Image created with the help of AI.

27-05 | News

Dutch government moves towards mandatory avian influenza vaccination