Country Focus - Poultry World

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

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

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

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