UK Officially Free from Avian Influenza (AI)
UK - The UK is officially free from Avian Influenza (AI) from yesterday (20 November), according to the rules laid down by the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE).

New Image for Golden Promise Turkeys This X'mas
UK - The only UK turkey with a cherished EU food label is given a new image as the Traditional Farmfresh Turkey Association launches its Christmas promotional material.

Blackhead in Turkeys, Gizzard Impaction in Free-Range Hens Reported
UK - The latest Monthly Surveillance Report from the Veterinary Laboratories Agency (VLA) covering poultry during September 2008 includes Capillaria, necrotic enteritis and blackhead in turkeys, infectious laryngotracheitis (ILT) and gizzard impactio...

Pet Chickens Pay a High Price
UK - Chickens could end up paying a high price for their freedom unless their keepers take a more active interest in healthcare according to animal health experts.

Later Gumboro Vaccination Better for Slower-growing Broilers
UK - Free-range broilers of the slower growing breeds need a different vaccination regime against Gumboro disease from faster-growing strains.

Morrisons Urged to Stop Selling Dutch Eggs
UK - The retailer's actions in continuing to sell Dutch free range eggs when supplies of British ones are plentiful has been criticised by the British Free Range Egg Producers Association (BFREPA) chairman Tom Vesey.

Chickens, Globalisation and the Forest King
UK - Welfare groups have been saying for years that modern farming should give up the use of finely-tuned specialist chickens and go instead for hardier, dual-purpose animals, which produce both meat and eggs. Now the Veterinary College in Bangalore...

Cracks in the Australian Free Range Label
AUSTRALIA - A new survey by consumer group Choice has reinforced the need for stricter labelling and regulation for free range eggs in Australia.

NFU Call for Support on UK Free Range
UK - British poultry farmers cannot meet the rapidly growing demand for free-range eggs because of over-strict RSPCA standards on stocking density, industry experts have warned.

Free Range Poultry Flying with Demand
UK - Noble Foods, the UK's largest supplier of free-range eggs has predicted a bright future of growth in its chosen sector. They forecast a growth rate as high as 10 per cent in 2008.

Hellman's: The Free Range Mayonnaise
UK - Mayonnaise manufacturer, Hellman's, has made the decision to use only free range eggs in its product starting as early as June 2008.

Free Range Eggs Sales Grow
UK - Britain's biggest egg producer, reports that for the first time more households are buying into free-range eggs than caged eggs.

Poultry Firm Follows Chefs’ Free Range Tips
UK - Scotland's biggest chicken producer aims to double its weekly output of free range birds, thanks in part to a campaign by Jamie Oliver and Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall.

Free Range Chickens Flying off the Shelves
UK - According to research carried out by G2 Data Dynamics, nearly two fifths of consumers have switched to free-range chicken since last month's media coverage of intensively farmed birds.

Festival Bid to Go Free Range
UK - Cambridge Folk Festival could go free range next year after civic leaders pledged to stop using battery-farmed chickens and eggs.

Go-ahead for Free Range Poultry Unit
UK - Lake District National Park planners have given the go-ahead for a free range poultry unit in Lowick Green.

Free Range Chicken Flying Off the Shelves
UK - There is a shortage of free-range chickens across North Somerset as residents take up the advice of top TV chefs.

Report States Caged Eggs Better than Free Range!
UK - A recent study at Cranfield University has been investigating the environmental "footprint" of 10 different farming systems using a life cycle assessment (LCA) model and has come up with some interesting results.

Organic Chickens Fly after Jamie Oliver's Fowl Deed
UK - Sales of organic and free range chickens have soared following a controversial Jamie Oliver television programme which showed disturbing scenes of chickens being slaughtered using battery-farming methods.

Vaccinating Free Range; is it a Cure?
UK - Following the recent bout of bird flu in the UK the Organic Research Centre has declared that all organic and free range poultry in the UK should be vaccinated against the highly pathogenic H5N1 strain.

BEIC Welcome Decision To Move Free Range Indoors
UK - The British Egg Industry Council (BEIC) has welcomed Defra’s decision to order free range birds inside within a limited area on the Suffolk/Norfolk borders, as both appropriate and timely to protect flocks from the risk of bird flu.

SPCA calls on shoppers to buy 'cage-free' eggs
NEW ZEALAND - The SPCA says New Zealand supermarket chains should follow the latest big British food retailer and set deadlines for ending sales of eggs from battery hens.

Battery eggs 'sold as free range'
UK - Traders may be incorrectly labelling more than one million imported battery eggs each week and then selling them as free range, say government officials.