Know How / Layers

With margins becoming ever-tighter, well-performing laying hens are absolutely essential to a profitable poultry business. Here, you will find our full archive of technical features and guidance that will help you achieve persistent, productive laying hen cycles.

Our key areas of focus are

  • Good practices for rearing, transfer and early lay
  • Advice on feeding strategies to ensure the best feed conversion
  • Reviews of the latest technology and equipment for the poultry sector
  • Help in managing birds through ever-longer laying cycles

Latest Know How

POULTRY

5 tips for farmers who want to market their own eggs

The public’s appetite for eggs remains strong, with consumers eating, on average, 202 eggs each a year – roughly 50 more than they were in 2004, according to British Lion…

LAYERS

How a free-range egg producer expanded local direct sales

Direct sales have been the business model at Ty Mawr Farm, Monmouthshire, since egg production was first established at the farm. Sixty years on, and the Country Fresh Eggs enterprise…

POULTRY

On-farm poultry manure pelletisers: the options and costs

With rules on farm emissions getting tougher, poultry equipment companies have reported a surge in demand for systems that turn manure into a stable, sanitised, saleable fertiliser. Dorset Green Machines…

POULTRY

How an organic egg producer eliminated nuisance flies in sheds

Tim Clarke has introduced controls on his 9,000-bird unit at Nantywellan, near Llandrindod Wells, to reduce fly populations. The flies are known carriers of diseases such as salmonella, pasteurella, campylobacter…

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