Layers

Temperatures of over 41ºC for 5 days have been registered in São Paulo, a record during the spring. Photo: Sérgio Kakimoto

12-10-2020 | News

Heat wave kills over 1 million layers in Brazil

12-10-2020 | News

Far East: Growing evidence of a move away from cage eggs

Mexicans eat a record breaking 378 eggs per year, and from now on, part of those eggs will come from Brazil. Photo: Henk Riswick

09-10-2020 | News

Mexico opens up for Brazilian eggs

Soos has developed an acoustic cell to measure the sound inside of the incubator. Their technology transforms the embryo through sound vibration and through changing the environmental conditions in the incubator. Photo: Jordan Kastrinsky, Soos.

06-10-2020 | Article

Israeli start-up Soos tackles culling of male chicks

Wrap, which has been a driving force in reducing the amount of food waste, made a deal with 2 Sisters Food Group and others to enable them to sign up to the Food Waste Reduction Roadmap. Photo: Roel Dijkstra

05-10-2020 | News

UK poultry companies to reduce food waste by 50% by 2030

The chicken coop programme offered by Mike is proving very popular among African farmers. Photo: Boschveld

02-10-2020 | Article

Strong demand for mixed day-old chicks in South Africa

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

Avian influenza

A study has uncovered specific regions across 9 different areas of the chicken genome where genetic variations appeared to play a role in helping protect chickens from bird flu outbreaks. Photo: Canva

22-11 | News

Genetic clues could help breed chickens resilient to bird flu

Bird flu was detected at a layer farm in the Netherlands. Photo: Bert Jansen

18-11 | News

Avian influenza rears its head all over Europe