Layers

Confidence in consumer demand for free-range eggs has prompted leading European egg producers to commit not only to phase out cages for laying hens but to phase out combination systems as well. Tackling poultry superbugs across the globe. Photo: Peter Roek

14-05-2022 | Article

Companies continue to meet cage-free commitments

Black soldier fly eggs are given waste and in less than 2 weeks the larvae consume the waste, grow into adults from which co-products can be extracted. Photo: Entocycle

04-05-2022 | News

Protein alternatives support net zero, land management and sustainability

Free-range egg farmers in the UK report that market conditions had never been so bad. Photo: Alexas fotos

02-05-2022 | News

Is a mass exodus of UK egg producers on the cards?

Egg farmers in the UK are facing a startling speed and scale of rising costs. Photo Koos Groenewold

13-04-2022 | News

Crisis in UK egg sector as production costs soar

It is widely recognised that cage-free systems are generally less efficient than cages due to several production traits. Photo: Jack Caffrey

06-04-2022 | Article

Efficiency challenges of cage-free eggs

Rosie Morrison, age 8, from Scotland. Photo: Provided

06-04-2022 | News

Rosie donates egg sales cash to buy generators for Ukraine hospitals

An ecological fertilizer based on eggshells has been developed by Brazilian scientists.

01-04-2022 | News

Brazilian researchers turn eggshells into fertilizer

Mark Williams, British Egg Industry Council CE:: “...consumers can continue to buy eggs from free-range hens, albeit temporarily housed, while farmers can ensure the hens are safe as well.” Photo: Elastic Compute Farm

28-03-2022 | News

UK bird flu: Free-range eggs temporarily reclassified as barn eggs

A national egg promotion campaign in Ghana, named ‘Eggstra-O’, is promoting the nutritional value of eggs. Photo: Joy Online

23-03-2022 | News

Ghana: new egg campaign shares egg health benefits

Kazakh poultry farms in the egg sector are braced for agricultural reform. Photo: Koos Groenewold

01-03-2022 | News

Kazakhstan poultry farms cull massive number of hens

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