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Mumbai consumes an average of 8.5 million eggs daily, but there is currently a vast shortfall, receiving just 4.5 million. Photo Henk Riswick

28-09-2020 | News

Indian poultry industry in for a slow recovery

In most tests, the breeds producing white eggs had an advantage over the breeds producing brown eggs and results over the past decade show the advantage is widening. Photo: Henk Riswick

24-09-2020 | News

Egg improvements through balanced breeding

BRF moves its timeline to use cage free eggs forward by 5 years and wants the job done by the end of this year. Photo: Hans Banus

04-09-2020 | News

BRF switches to cage-free eggs

A total of 40,000 chicks were delivered in March and have now matured into layers with about 100,000 eggs having been collected in one week. Photo: Anne Waiguru

03-09-2020 | News

Kenya: 1 million eggs project launched

More than 500 eggs per hen housed was once a dream, but now a reality. Photo: Jan Willem Schouten

26-08-2020 | News

SFR seminar on extended laying period in layers

The Kazakh Egg Producers Association warns that the country s egg industry could collapse by the end of 2020. Photo: Henk Riswick

19-08-2020 | News

Perfect storm hits Kazakhstan egg industry

The UK egg industry sees a shortage of people entering the workforce. Photo: Poultry World

17-08-2020 | News

New egg academy launches in UK

Birds can get used to any type of sound. Dutch poultry farmer Piet Classens plays a trombone in the shed for years and now UK egg producer Glenn Haggart plays music to his hens. Photo: Bart Nijs

14-08-2020 | News

UK egg farmer plays music to his hens

If the conflict does not change by autumn, some problems with egg supply could be seen on the Ukrainian market. Photo: Henk Riswick

12-08-2020 | News

Largest Ukraine egg producer may close some farms

Super Eggs contain high levels of Selenium and DHA Omega-3 that are easily digested and absorbed by the body. Photo: Bert Jansen

05-08-2020 | News

Eggs developed for the health and wellness market

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