Layers

Photo: Bart Nijs Fotografie

13-11-2020 | News

Uzbekistan ups production of hatching eggs

The free-range layer sector in the UK is growing at a pace supply is outgrowing demand. Photo: Joris Telders

16-10-2020 | News

Free-range egg expansion ‘unsustainable and unnecessary’

Llyr runs a 16,000-hen free-range egg unit at Derwydd, at Llanfihangel Glyn Myfyr near Corwen. Photo: Chris McCullough

15-10-2020 | News

Swapping egg size and colour could reduce ammonia emissions

Temperatures of over 41ºC for 5 days have been registered in São Paulo, a record during the spring. Photo: Sérgio Kakimoto

12-10-2020 | News

Heat wave kills over 1 million layers in Brazil

12-10-2020 | News

Far East: Growing evidence of a move away from cage eggs

Mexicans eat a record breaking 378 eggs per year, and from now on, part of those eggs will come from Brazil. Photo: Henk Riswick

09-10-2020 | News

Mexico opens up for Brazilian eggs

Soos has developed an acoustic cell to measure the sound inside of the incubator. Their technology transforms the embryo through sound vibration and through changing the environmental conditions in the incubator. Photo: Jordan Kastrinsky, Soos.

06-10-2020 | Article

Israeli start-up Soos tackles culling of male chicks

Wrap, which has been a driving force in reducing the amount of food waste, made a deal with 2 Sisters Food Group and others to enable them to sign up to the Food Waste Reduction Roadmap. Photo: Roel Dijkstra

05-10-2020 | News

UK poultry companies to reduce food waste by 50% by 2030

The chicken coop programme offered by Mike is proving very popular among African farmers. Photo: Boschveld

02-10-2020 | Article

Strong demand for mixed day-old chicks in South Africa

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