A farmer in Huron County has reported to Ontario Provincial Police that he lost 15,000 chicks in mid-May. The same farmer reported a loss of 30,000 chicks in April. The OPP reports that the farmer said the first batch of chicks went missing sometime between April 19 and April 20, according to Global News. Huron […] Read more
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Huron farm reports missing chicks for second time
International joint venture buys Prairie layer hatchery
ILD, Trouw Nutrition to co-own Clark's Poultry
A Manitoba company providing day-old layer chicks to poultry producers in the three Prairie provinces is under new joint ownership. International Layer Distribution (ILD), a subsidiary of German egg layer breeding firm EW Group, and Trouw Nutrition Canada, a livestock feed arm of Nutreco, on Monday announced their joint venture has acquired Clark’s Poultry for […] Read more
Ontario’s broiler egg tracking systems backed for upgrades
Systems used to track broiler hatching egg and chick production in Ontario will get upgrades using federal-provincial cost-shared funding. The federal and Ontario governments on Monday last week announced up to $141,450 through the Place to Grow: Agri-food Innovation Initiative, a Canadian Agricultural Partnership program, for the Ontario Broiler Hatching Egg and Chick Commission (OBHECC). […] Read more
4-H youth solves problem of chick death with “Safer Chick-ments”
A 14-year-old Canadian created a new design for the boxes in which chicks are shipped and applied for a patent
Glacier FarmMedia – It all started with a 4-H project for 14-year-old Mac Dykeman. A member of a 4-H poultry club at Langley, B.C., she was often dismayed when her orders from the United States arrived with dead birds in the shipment. “I would receive them and open the box and many times find them […] Read more
Interprovincial salmonella outbreak tied to chicks
Federal and Alberta provincial health and veterinary officials are probing almost three dozen cases of salmonella poisoning across three provinces, tied to handling of live baby chickens. The Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) said Monday it’s so far investigating 17 cases of illness in people in Alberta, 13 in British Columbia and four in […] Read more
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