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Poultry Lockdown 2020

Post author:Harriet Smith
Post published:December 9, 2020
Post category:Animal Nutrition Featured Learning and Training News Poultry Ruminant

Helping farmers going into the new housing order with new ideas

What effect has COVID19 had on the poultry market?

Post author:Harriet Smith
Post published:November 24, 2020
Post category:Poultry

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%

What influences egg shell quality?

Post author:CMC Team
Post published:September 30, 2020
Post category:Featured Poultry

Many factors affect shell quality and are critical for producing eggs.

Free range eggs at Clayewater Farms in Devon

Post author:CMC Team
Post published:July 28, 2020
Post category:Poultry

Clayewater Farms is a family run business located in Devon, Supplying award-winning quality Free Range Eggs

How important water quality is to laying hens

Post author:Harriet Smith
Post published:March 4, 2020
Post category:Poultry

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…

How different factors influence egg size

Post author:Will White
Post published:March 4, 2020
Post category:Poultry

The amino acids lysine and methionine are two significant drivers of egg size in hens’ diets

New member of the poultry team

Post author:CMC Team
Post published:February 25, 2020
Post category:News Poultry

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…

Beak trimming – a story from 2015

Post author:Will White
Post published:November 20, 2019
Post category: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…

Ascaridia, Heterakis, Capillaria, Syngamus trachea, Gape worm

Post author:Andrew Power
Post published:August 12, 2019
Post category:Health Poultry

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…

Egg Peritonitis

Post author:Andrew Power
Post published:February 14, 2018
Post category:Animal Nutrition Poultry

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.