Layers

Iran currently produces between 3,500 and 3,600 tonnes of eggs per day on average. Photo: Canva

10-09-2025 | News

Iran’s egg industry is on the brink of bankruptcy

Hendrix Genetics, headquartered in Boxmeer, North Brabant, in the Netherlands, is a global player in layer poultry genetics. It holds several well-known chicken brands including Babcock, Hisex and Dekalb. Photo: Hendrix Genetics

05-09-2025 | News

Hendrix Genetics makes strategic investment to strengthen R&D capabilities

These hatched brown layer hens were in-ovo sex determined by Cheggy technology. Photo: NestFresh

29-08-2025 | News

NestFresh’s Humanely Hatched programme sets new standard

She said: “The Dekalb White birds, hatched by Joice and Hill, are remarkably robust and have presented noticeably fewer challenges. Photo: Supplied

12-08-2025 | News

Joice and Hill Dekalb 500 White Egg club continues to grow

Iceland supermarket – the fourth largest retailer of caged eggs in the UK – has confirmed a new timetable to go completely cage-free across it egg supply by June 2027. Photo: Canva

29-07-2025 | News

UK’s Iceland supermarket reverses cage-free egg stance

Russian environmental protection community has intensified its efforts to convince authorities to adopt strict animal welfare rules to prevent the cases that have recently occurred in the egg industry. Photo: Canva

28-07-2025 | News

Russia: Financial losses spur mass mortality and spark poultry welfare concerns

Simon Day, farm manager at Noble Foods’ largest rearing farm. Photo: Supplied

07-07-2025 | News

Pullet flock rearer celebrates 70th flock

In nature, layers have the tendency to prevent heat stress, whereas in more intensive production systems they need some support to cope with heat. Photo: Koos Groenewold

07-07-2025 | Article

Supporting layer productivity in hot climates by adding organic acids to water

Cage-free countdown: UK retailers face 2025 deadline

04-07-2025 | News

Cage-free countdown: UK retailers face 2025 deadline

While the vast majority of food corporations have agreed to remove cages from their egg supply chains, others have been slower to change. Photo: Canva

26-06-2025 | News

Global investigation uncovers widespread abuse in industrial egg farms

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