For the first time in Japan since April 2009, there has been an outbreak of Newcastle disease. The World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE ) confirmed that the outbreak began on the 28th of June on a farm consisting of 58 birds. Thirty-three of these chicks died from this disease, and the ...
The US state of California has passed a law that will effectively ban the sale of eggs from hens kept in cages from 2015.
On July 6th, state governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed bill AB 1437, which requires whole eggs sold in California to comply with the animal welfare standards set out in the ...
The Slovenian pharmaceutical company Krka has appointed Belgium’s Aveve Biochem to distribute its anticoccidial feed additive, Kokcisan 120G, in the European Union. The product contains the active ingredient salinomycin, a broad-spectrum anticoccidial that is effective against all Eimeria species. ...
The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) has urged poultry feed producers to source their soybeans from sustainable farmers who do not impact upon rainforests or savannah in Latin America.
Speaking at Informa Agra’s World Poultrymeat conference in London,
Richard Perkins
of the WWF said land conversion as a ...
