Poultry housing in the UK needs urgent upgrades and investment if producers are going to meet animal welfare and environmental commitments, according to a recent NFU poultry shed survey. The survey, ...

All owners of poultry and captive birds are to adhere to a compulsory housing order which will be implement from Monday, November 10, as directed by the Department of Agriculture Poultry owners must ...

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The compulsory housing order to protect poultry and captive birds during the higher risk period of avian influenza will be lifted on May 5, but biosecurity regulations will remain in place The ...

Available for free in multiple languages, the materials are presented as videos, infographics, and flip charts for use by training and development organisations. The training module explains when and ...

Housing is necessary to protect chicken against predators, thieves, bad weather and provide shelter for egg laying and broody hens. In rectangular houses, the end walls should face an East-West ...

While good fences may make good neighbors, simply erecting a fence isn’t going to cut it many times if there’s a large poultry house immediately next to it. In that vein, the N.C. Poultry Federation ...

It makes a lot of sense to reuse heat that is present in poultry housing. Warming up the incoming fresh air to provide the necessary ventilation keeps the internal atmosphere clean and the litter dry.