Chickens Industry News & Blogs

Industry News & Blogs

World Poultry - News: UK researchers aim to breed Campylobacter-resistant chickens
www.worldpoultry.net | 6 hours 34 minutes ago
Eliminating the most common cause of food poisoning from the food chain is the aim of new Roslin Institute research funded by the BBSRC and poultry breeding company Aviagen.

CME: Pork & Beef Demand up, Chicken Down in 2011
www.thepigsite.com | Feb 16, 2012
US - The release on Monday of USDA's estimates of carcass/ ready-to-cook weight data for December exports provided the last piece of information needed to compute demand indexes for December and all of 2011, write Steve Meyer and Len Steiner.

Brazil Vows to Take Poultry Fight to WTO
www.thepoultrysite.com | Feb 16, 2012
SOUTH AFRICA - While the Brazilian chicken industry said yesterday that it would take the fight to the World Trade Organisation (WTO), local producers have vowed to prove that other imported chicken products do not comply with WTO rules.

Sainsbury's drops cage eggs in own brand food
www.fwi.co.uk | Feb 15, 2012
Retail giant Sainsbury's has announced that all eggs used for all its own-brand foods, as well as its shell eggs, now come from cage-free hens.

Patricia Foreman Talks With, June Stoyer, Host Of “The Organic View Radio Show” February 9, 2012 |
www.prlog.org | Feb 9, 2012
Patricia Foreman Talks With, June Stoyer, Host Of “The Organic View Radio Show” February 9, 2012. Chicken expert, Patricia Foreman, discusses her best-selling book, City Chicks: Keeping Micro-flocks of Chickens as Garden Helpers, Compost Makers, Bio-recyclers and Local Food Suppliers, with host,

NPPC Opposes Hen Housing Legislation | Animal Well-Being content from National Hog Farmer
nationalhogfarmer.com | Jan 27, 2012
< p > & nbsp; < /p > < p > The National Pork Producers Council (NPPC) has criticized congressional legislation introduced Monday that would prescribe cage sizes for egg-laying hens, saying it would create a & ldquo;dangerous precedent & rdquo; in allowing the federal government to regulate on-farm

Disgust at nations missing battery hen deadline - Farming News - Farming - nebusiness.co.uk
www.nebusiness.co.uk | Jan 21, 2012
ALL laying hens across the European Union should have been removed from “barren” battery cages by January 1 this year, but despite having more than a decade to prepare themselves, a number of nations missed the deadline.

Free-range success for Ellises - Weekly Times Now
www.weeklytimesnow.com.au | Jan 18, 2012
A DECISION to set up a free-range egg farm has brought rich rewards, writes EMMA FIELD

PigProgress - News: Aarhus Uni: 100% organic diet for organic pigs
www.pigprogress.net | Nov 24, 2011
In future the feed for organic pigs and poultry will be 100 percent organic and it will be quite a challenge to meet the demand for, particularly, protein-rich feeds. You may think it strange that organic pork chops, eggs and poultry are not already produced from diets that are 100 percent organic.

Marler Clark Law Firm Calls on Chicken Liver Producer to Pay Victims’ Medical Bills
www.prweb.com | Nov 11, 2011
Food safety experts and Salmonella attorneys at Marler Clark are calling on the maker of MealMart kosher chicken liver products, to pay the medical bills for victims of what CIDRAP has called a 169 person Salmonella outbreak linked to said products.