Defra has raised the avian influenza (AI) risk level for poultry farms with suboptimal biosecurity measures to ‘medium, with low uncertainty’, prompting urgent calls for UK…

The inclusion of a probiotic live yeast in pig diets can shorten the fattening period and improve feed conversion ratio, according to results from a recent…

It’s a cracking year for hens as national charity the British Hen Welfare Trust (BHWT) celebrates rehoming one million chickens from commercial laying farms since 2005.…

The next interactive webinar in the Farm Animal Veterinary Society (FAVS) Carpool Cases series, will provide new vet graduates and students with the chance to learn…

In a judgment handed down today, a group of NFU members has won a landmark legal challenge against the Animal & Plant Health Agency (APHA) in…

A new pioneering poultry guide has just been launched following a collaboration between a UK hen rehoming charity and a US-based organisation. The British Hen Welfare…

Cargill Animal Nutrition UK has replaced the soya sources in its pre-starter and starter pig and poultry diets with its Triple S soya. The triple ‘S’…

An increase in bird flu cases has led Great Britain’s chief veterinary officers to declare a prevention zone across the whole island. It is now a…

Bird flu has been identified in poultry at a site in Anglesey, the Welsh government said on Sunday. The presence of the highly pathogenic avian influenza…

Mandatory housing measures for all poultry and captive birds in Norfolk, Suffolk and parts of Essex are to be introduced from 00:01 on Wednesday, October 12,…