Layers

A total of 40,000 chicks were delivered in March and have now matured into layers with about 100,000 eggs having been collected in one week. Photo: Anne Waiguru

03-09-2020 | News

Kenya: 1 million eggs project launched

More than 500 eggs per hen housed was once a dream, but now a reality. Photo: Jan Willem Schouten

26-08-2020 | News

SFR seminar on extended laying period in layers

The Kazakh Egg Producers Association warns that the country s egg industry could collapse by the end of 2020. Photo: Henk Riswick

19-08-2020 | News

Perfect storm hits Kazakhstan egg industry

The UK egg industry sees a shortage of people entering the workforce. Photo: Poultry World

17-08-2020 | News

New egg academy launches in UK

Birds can get used to any type of sound. Dutch poultry farmer Piet Classens plays a trombone in the shed for years and now UK egg producer Glenn Haggart plays music to his hens. Photo: Bart Nijs

14-08-2020 | News

UK egg farmer plays music to his hens

If the conflict does not change by autumn, some problems with egg supply could be seen on the Ukrainian market. Photo: Henk Riswick

12-08-2020 | News

Largest Ukraine egg producer may close some farms

Super Eggs contain high levels of Selenium and DHA Omega-3 that are easily digested and absorbed by the body. Photo: Bert Jansen

05-08-2020 | News

Eggs developed for the health and wellness market

Indigenous breeds of chickens provide a pool of potentially useful genetic resources for commercial strains that are characterised by their native resistance and adaptability to environmental conditions. Photo: Peter J.E.Roek

27-07-2020 | Article

Native birds as a valuable genetic resource

One of the issues for the egg sector was that precision tools, while often affordable, had difficulty in transitioning from prototypes to commercial systems. Photo: Van Assendelft

23-07-2020 | Article

Lack of commercialisation of technologies in layers

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