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New wheat strain could strengthen broilers’ legs
A study at Nottingham Trent University shows that specially-bred wheat could help provide some of the key nutrients essential for…
Feed & Nutrition
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Organic acids act as alternative to antibiotics in broilers: new research
Researchers in Egypt have conducted a study on broiler chickens, looking at the effect on health of formic acid and…
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Poultry fed kitchen scraps pose big disease risk
The Animal and Plant Health Agency is warning farmers and smallholders not to feed catering or kitchen waste to livestock…
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Eggs from free-range hens contain more vitamin D
Eggs laid to hens that are kept either in free-range or organic systems contain more vitamin D than eggs from…
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Burger King switches to antibiotic-free poultry
Several fast food chains in the US have announced plans to only buy chicken raised without antibiotics. Burger King and Tim…
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Canadian poultry leader welcomes sustainability programme step by Nutreco
The global feed firm, Nutreco, has launched a new sustainability programme called Nuterra, setting out its sustainability strategy with the…
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Feed inclusion vigilance advised over 2016 mycotoxin levels
This year’s wheat harvest in the UK and Ireland is of medium quality in terms of mycotoxin contamination but is…
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£14m expansion boost for insect farming business
The global insect farming business, AgriProtein, has secured $17.5 million (£14m) to fund a production expansion into Europe, North &…
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Top level validation offered to new animal feed developers
Animal feed developers who think they have a “breakthrough innovation” which just cannot wait, have been invited by the global…
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New layer feed concept from ForFarmers is R&D driven
The global feed firm, ForFarmers, has put research and development at the core of a new layer feed concept called…