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The broilers produced under the Loue brand have plenty of space, both inside and outside the house. Photo: Hans Siemes
14-09-2020 | Article

Welfare label ensures a premium for meat and eggs

The new barn is a single-storey building making operations easier. Photo: Prinzen
19-08-2020 | Article

Farm report: Producing broilers under quota regulations

The house with Hubbard JA57 and JA87 parent stock. The dwarf females resemble a regular layer, says Melvin Hazeleger. Photo: Henk Riswick
03-08-2020 | Article

Young poultry farmer’s experience with dwarf parent stock

Getting the flocks Salmonella free required an action plan that was followed for years. Photo: Dick van Doorn
17-07-2020 | Article

Farm Report: How Dutch broiler farmer eradicates Salmonella

Some chicken shop owners with more than three outlets have closed two, saying it has become difficult to pay employees' salaries. Photo: ANP, Manjunath Kiran
19-06-2020 | Article

Coronavirus rumours cost India’s poultry dearly

Africa s chicken meat market is likely to see steady growth and is expected to reach 11 million tonnes by 2030. Photo: Random Institute
15-04-2020 | News

Steady growth for Africa’s chicken meat market

There are around 56,000 breeding hens at Elgin Free Range Chickens at any one time. Photo: Chris McCullough
06-04-2020 | Article

Farm report SA: Freedom and good feed ensure healthy birds

Ducks are an ideal natural pest control and marketing tool. Photo: Vergenoegd
01-04-2020 | News

Ducks on the front line of eco-friendly pest control

The current flock of Cobb slow is 33 weeks old and in full production. Fabian Brockötter
01-04-2020 | Article

Brazil: Dutch settlers adapting to new poultry opportunities

Most Swiss farms are relatively small scale. Add to that the challenges of mountain farming and a higher cost price needs to be offset in retail. Photo: Henk Riswick
26-03-2020 | Article

Swiss consumer preferences boost domestic poultry production

RCL Foods is South Africa s largest processor and marketer of chicken. It is a fully integrated broiler producer that breeds and rears its own livestock which it feeds from its own feed mills. It processes, distributes and markets fresh, frozen and value-added chicken.
10-02-2020 | Article

South Africa launches poultry masterplan

The broilers at Tiina Varho-Lankinen's farm have been raised without any antibiotics at all for the last decade. Photo: Jorma Heikkila
10-01-2020 | Article

Finnish broilers can do without antibiotics

Small and medium-sized enterprises often keep their broilers in simple houses. Feed and water are given manually. Hygiene at such companies is often lacking and threatens the large, professional operations of the integrations in the vicinity. Photos: Ad Bal
13-11-2019 | Article

Sharing poultry production best practices in Bangladesh

The organic eggs are sold under the Orchard Eggs label. The hens have their outdoor access in an apple orchard. Photo: Orchard Eggs
21-10-2019 | Article

UK layer farm selling each egg themselves

Photo: Chris McCullough
05-06-2019 | Article

South Africa: Challenges of free-range duck farming

Smena-8 the latest development of Russian scientists - is currently ready for field trials and soon may replace foreign breeding material on Russian farms. Photo: Vladislav Vorotnikov
31-05-2019 | Article

Russian domestic super breed for independence