By Alex Royden, BVSc MRes MSc PhD MRCVS, Poultry Health Services Alex Royden is lead vet for the northwest practices of Poultry Health Services in Tarvin,…
Month: January 2021
Northern Ireland’s Chief Veterinary Officer, Dr Robert Huey, has confirmed that Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI), subtype H5N8 has been found in a poultry flock at…
A Kent cutting plant and cold store business which admitted responsibility for hygiene offences has been ordered to pay a total of £9,350. The operator of…
The latest figures from Kantar show take-home grocery sales rose by 11.4% during the 12 weeks to 27 December 2020, a period spanning both the November national lockdown…
Responding to the announcement that government is to launch a consultation on the future regulation of gene editing, NFU Vice President Tom Bradshaw said: “New precision…
Access to veterinary services and treatments will still be available during the national lockdowns in England and Scotland. They will also be available under the Welsh and NI arrangements. Dawn Howard, chief executive…
Agri-tech company Poultry Sense and specific microbial solutions company Lallemand Animal Nutrition have joined forces to improve the reliability and credibility of data gained from commercial…
Red Tractor is urging farmers to engage in a consultation on how its farm standards should evolve. A consultation on the assurance scheme opened today with…
A number of staff at Moy Park’s Randalstown Mill have contracted COVID-19 and are self-isolating on full pay. The company said production at the mill, which…
The RSPCA has warned of a rise in the number of chickens being abandoned after lots of people went out and bought chicks during lockdown and now can’t…