Poultry Lockdown 2020
Helping farmers going into the new housing order with new ideas
Helping farmers going into the new housing order with new ideas
The demand for both poultry meat and eggs has significantly increased at a retail level throughout the outbreak of COVID19. There has been reports that at its peak, egg sales were up as much as 100%
Many factors affect shell quality and are critical for producing eggs.
Clayewater Farms is a family run business located in Devon, Supplying award-winning quality Free Range Eggs
Crediton Milling was founded in 1964 to supply local farmers with animal feed. The business then continued to expand through the 60s and 70s and now into 2020. The mill…
The amino acids lysine and methionine are two significant drivers of egg size in hens’ diets
Find out more about Crediton Milling in this months issue of NFU Poultry magazine and read about our new member of the team, Harriet Smith, who recently joined the poultry…
This month I thought I would talk about beak trimming and the current position of the potential ban being brought into force. My next article will look into how this…
Worms pose a constant challenge to poultry, and this year has proved no different. The more common types of worm - Ascaridia, Heterakis, Capillaria, Syngamus trachea, Gape worm all live…
The weather has been horrendous and we have seen problems associated with birds trudging through the soaked ranges. It is inevitable that the birds that go out onto the range will drink from the muddy puddles and ingest a host of bugs that can affect bird health. Probably the biggest cause of death in laying birds is egg peritonitis or E.coli peritonitis and the drinking of that dirty, infected water certainly doesn’t help! The term egg peritonitis actually covers disorders of the egg-laying tract including impaction of the oviduct, peritonitis and infection of the oviduct. E.coli, however, tends to be the bug that kills the bird.