A new commercial pullet rearing system has been introduced by Performance Pullets, sister company to The Lakes Free Range Egg Co, which, it says, is producing better feathered, more active birds in ...

A focus on hen welfare and technological innovation helped a 200-hen diversification grow into a business producing and packing eggs from 2 million chickens via a network of suppliers. David and Helen ...

Commercial laying hen chicks experience continuous light for up to 24 h/day in the first week of life. Under these conditions, active chicks disturb, and may direct feather pecks towards resting ones.

A BABY bonanza is taking hold at one of East Lancashire’s wildlife parks. Brockholes Nature Reserve, just off junction 31 of the M6 at Samlesbury, has seen its feathery friends flourish in the spring ...

In this video, I explain how I set my brooder up and transfer newly hatched coturnix quail chicks from the incubator to the brooder.

Male kestrels are not known to brood chicks. Neither do they feed them. But last month a kestrel father living in my garden astonished wildlife enthusiasts around the world by doing both. It is very ...

Commercial laying hen chicks experience continuous light for up to 24 h/day in the first week of life. Under these conditions, active chicks disturb, and may direct feather pecks towards resting ones.