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Ready cooked eggs – what next?

It seems that people have such busy lifestyles nowadays that they haven’t even got a few minutes to spare to boil an egg. The latest innovation from Noble Foods (the largest UK egg producer) is a ready-to-eat hard boiled egg, available in selected Sainsbury’s stores. Or perhaps this is clever marketing...

Posted to Talking Point (Forum) by Richard Allison on Tue, Aug 19 2008
Re: Newcomer to Free Range Egg Production

You may be interested in some hygiene tips for Free Range Egg Production in this article from this month's Poultry World: http://www.octagon-services.co.uk/articles/poultry/hygiene.pdf Brachyspira infection is a significant business risk in layers now. Michael

Posted to Chicken chat (Forum) by HolisticHealth on Tue, Aug 12 2008
Non Profit Poultry Buisness in The Gambia

Hi everyone, I am writing to request guidance regarding a poultry startup buisness in The Gambia. My name is Qasid. I am a Londoner who spent his gap year teaching maths in a Gambian secondary school. During my seven months there I witnessed first hand the extreme and widespread poverty in The Gambia...

Posted to Chicken chat (Forum) by qasid on Sat, Aug 2 2008
Wish me luck

I know it's been a while since I wandered in..(long story). BUT...I have just written a nagging letter to my landlords (housing Association) asking why I can keep pigeons in my back garden and not chickens! I am awaiting a reply and hopefully permission...considering I know chickens can't be...

Posted to Chicken chat (Forum) by flowerdrum on Mon, May 12 2008
Turksish delights and a bit of PR

Well, I complained about the wheather and through the powers of FWI space, and as a result - its been bloomin' great! I took the dog out and i was sweating!!!! On the farm on saturday, we had fencing to do as i mentioned, this went pretty smoothly (despite waking up on sunday feeling like an arthritic...

Posted to Matty's Blog (Weblog) by matty s on Tue, May 6 2008
Welfare versus carbon footprint

At the recent Egg and Poultry Conference, there was a very interesting paper given by Adrian Williams of Cranfield University looking at the carbon footprint of farming. He was the guy who caused all the media fuss last summer by saying it was better to import flowers from Africa than the EU on a carbon...

Posted to Talking Point (Forum) by Richard Allison on Wed, Nov 21 2007
red mite help please

Hi After years of keeping livestock, dogs and horses I admit I am new to keeping hens this year.. coping with everything fine except red mite... today found traces in all 2 new hen houses depsite using poultry shield often... tried dettol also and blowtorch in the worst affected part of the worst arc...

Posted to Chicken chat (Forum) by droverjess on Mon, Oct 15 2007
Re: Projected rises in on shelf prices

With eggs, there is a good reason to buy British. Lion Quality eggs come from UK flocks that have been vaccinated against salmonella, so are salmonella free. It is the only scheme in Europe and in a recent EU survey, salmonella was found to be more prevelant in eggs from other countries, especially Spain...

Posted to Talking Point (Forum) by Richard Allison on Wed, Aug 29 2007

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