December 22, 2010
Ahead of the flock
We have heard of chicken in a basket, but never in a bucket!
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April 12, 2010
Land Of Dreams
Accountant and smallholder TOM MAIN gives advice on finding a property and prudent financial planning
January 21, 2008
Chicken waste to power energy plant
JANUARY 21, 2008: A Norfolk poultry firm is pressing ahead with plans for amulti-million pound renewable energy plant fuelled entirely by chickenwaste that would be the first of its kind in the UK.
January 20, 2008
Supermarkets ‘take action on chicken welfare’
January 18, 2008: Supermarkets have reacted to TV programmes about chicken welfare by announcing newrules and regulations to reassure consumers of their commitment to thehighest standards.
January 19, 2008
Double tagging ‘less onerous than expected’
JANUARY 18, 2008: The double tagging regulations which came into effect this monthfollowing the withdrawal of the UK’s derogation from recent EU sheepand goat identification legislation are less onerous than originallyfeared, according to a English…
January 18, 2008
F&M ‘cost Welsh farmers more than £40m’
JANUARY 18, 2008: The foot-and-mouth outbreak last year may have cost Welsh farmers more than £40m, it is claimed.
January 17, 2008
Fourth swan had H5N1
JANUARY 17 2008: A fourth swan at a sanctuary in Dorset has tested positive for thevirulent H5N1 strain of bird flu, environment department Defra has said.
January 17, 2008
Call for free range vaccination
JANUARY 17, 2008: With the UK still under the shadow of bird flu, The Organic Research Centre had called for free range poultry in the UK to be vaccinated against the highly pathogenic H5N1 strain.
January 16, 2008
Avian Influenza H5N1 confirmed in Dorset – update
January 16: Defra has today confirmed that another mute swan collected on 11 January as part of wild bird surveillance from the same area has tested positive for highly pathogenic H5N1 Avian Influenza.
January 11, 2008
Bird flu hits Dorset swans
JANUARY 11, 2008: Tests are continuing on birds around Chesil Beach in Dorset as vetstry to contain an outbreak of H5N1, the deadly form of bird flu found in swans.
January 10, 2008
Chicken Run – NFU and Poultry Council hit back
JANUARY 10, 2008: Chickens reared for meat are not ‘battery’ farmed and poultry producers in the UK are fed up of hearing the claim repeated – that was the message from the British Poultry Council…
