Pullet rearing in a “broiler house”
German consumers demand more and more organic eggs. While 6.2 % of bird places were for organic egg production in 2010, this figure had nearly doubled by the end of November 2018, at 11.1 %. Since…
Welfare boot camp for pullets
“The first batch was great!” The Glicksman family – father Yona and his sons Benny and Moshe – from Gedera, 50 kilometres south of Tel Aviv, are perfectly happy with their new rearing aviary. The…
Hungarian Minister of Agriculture inaugurates nine new houses for breeder management
Gabor Kiszel, Minister István Nagy and Tibor Pogacsas MP (left to right) during the ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new poultry houses The Hungarian company Bro-Bio-Tojás Kft., a part of the…
Spain: Big Dutchman builds two turn-key poultry houses for broiler production
Big Dutchman recently built two new houses for broiler production for the company Spes 2016 S.L. in the Spanish province of Zaragoza. The turn-key buildings each have a size of 130 x 16 meters with an…
Eight state-of-the-art layer houses for pullet rearing and egg production with latest technology
The egg producer General Poultry Company (GPC) from Hamala in the north-west of Bahrain has been devoted to supplying the Kingdom of Bahrain with healthy food for the past 40 years. To ensure that…
France: welfare barn for egg production inaugurated
In France, the popularity of organic eggs is increasing. Nicolas Porcherot from Poiseul-la-Ville-et-Laperrière reacted to this trend and recently expanded his family-owned agricultural company EARL…
The animal-friendly NATURA aviary systems are the world’s most successful egg production systems by far
The demand for animal-friendly systems for egg production is rising quickly. The reason: today’s consumers in Europe and the world over want to enjoy eggs and egg products that meet the highest…
Big Dutchman and Charoen Pokphand Group sign two three-million layer projects
Big Dutchman and Charoen Pokphand Group (CP) have recently signed a contract for two three-million layer farm projects located in the Chongming district, Shanghai, and in the Dongchuan district,…
“There were a number of reasons why we chose to go with this system. One of them was animal welfare.”
Rory Young and his partner Ealing Gibson have been producing free range eggs in the Scottish council area Dumfries and Galloway since 2009. Recently, the two egg producers added a new layer facility…
“We think it’s worth buying good quality equipment; then if you look after it – it will look after you!”
Britons love eggs from free range hens: in 2017, 55.6 % of layers were producing free range eggs, more than any other type. To be able to meet this demand, Bird Bros Ltd. decided three years ago to…