Reading Time: 2 minutes Lethbridge egg farmer Levi Hofer has one eye on the present, the other on the future. Hofer is the manager of the layer flock at the New York Hutterite Colony, which is home to new state-of-the-art facilities called “furnished housing.” It’s a new style that provides a more natural open environment, with nesting areas, scratch […] Read more
New York Hutterite Colony adopts leading-edge poultry housing
The ‘furnished housing’ style features nesting areas, scratch pads and perches, which allow the birds to engage in natural behaviour
Animal agriculture big business for animal rights activists
Undercover videos are rapidly becoming the go-to method of swaying public opinion for animal rights groups
Reading Time: 3 minutes Security personnel at the door at the Egg Farmers of Alberta annual general meeting in Red Deer were a stark sign of how the world has changed for the livestock sector. Four months after an undercover video scandal rocked Canada’s egg industry, security officials were keeping a wary eye out for protesters and allowing in […] Read more
Poultry producers urged to use new guide to create emergency plan
Reading Time: 2 minutes Barns collapsing under the weight of heavy snow. Electrical power zapped by storms. Floods or water supplies threatened by drought. Alberta poultry producers understand how devastating any of these could be, but many still need an effective disaster and business continuity plan to deal with them. But a new guide provides poultry producers with a […] Read more
A kinder, gentler way of killing chickens
Mountain View Poultry in Okotoks, Alta. will be among the first to install it
Reading Time: 4 minutes It used to be that if the preacher said he was coming for dinner, a chicken met its maker before lunch. Cooking up a fresh bird was the on-farm version of fast food long before Colonel Sanders hit the scene with his Kentucky Fried franchise. A hen could contribute to the family’s breakfast and still […] Read more
Cyber-Savvy Farmer
