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Bob Guy given poultry worker award

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The Poultry Industry Council (PIC) has posthumously recognized Bob Guy with its Ed McKinlay Poultry Worker of the Year award. Ed Verkley chair of PIC presented the award to Guy’s wife Cindy, at the recent Ontario Broiler Hatching Egg Chick Commission’s annual meeting. Guy was an employee of the broiler hatching egg commission for 17 […] Read more
When eggs at the Trillium Hatchery are ready to hatch, they are moved to a system where the new chicks drop through to a cleaner area than has been usual in a hatchery, reducing need for antibiotics.
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Quality chicks, reducing antibiotics drive new hatchery

Trillium Hatchery has a capacity of 20 million chicks per year, with room to expand

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Having dropped from their eggshells directly onto a clean floor with immediate access to feed and water, the first chicks from the brand new Trillium Hatchery made their way onto Ontario broiler farms during the first week of November. A Nov. 13 official ribbon-cutting at the 70,000 sq. foot Stratford facility marked the second opening […] Read more
Brittney Livingston, Andrew Mazurka and their sons Travis (standing) and Emmett, at the entrance to the barn housing horses and artisanal chicken near Hillsburgh.
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Niche chicken program grows

The artisanal chicken program supplies local markets and allows farmers to diversify

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Chicken Farmers of Ontario’s artisanal chicken program continues to grow, with 2018 participants close to double the first year of the program, launched in 2016. The program was created after calls for the CFO to be more responsive to demands for chicken produced locally, using methods alternative to conventional broiler barns. Why it matters: The […] Read more
Hudson Seaton (l), Alia Linton and Jorja Linton are spending the summer working connecting food directly to their family farms by selling breakfast sandwiches at the St. Marys Farmers Market.
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Getting crackin’

Young entrepreneurs tie farm-fresh eggs with end food product at farmers’ market

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Three students from A.J. Baker Public School in Kintore have decided that a working summer vacation may be just what they need. Alia and Jorja Linton will be collecting eggs and carrying out other responsibilities on their family’s Uniondale farm. Hudson Seaton is going to help feed the chickens at what’s known as the Seaton […] Read more
Innovative egg-scanning technology moves closer to commercialization
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Innovative egg-scanning technology moves closer to commercialization

Identifying the gender of eggs before they begin incubation saves costs, reduces waste and improves animal welfare

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Commercialization of new technology that determines the gender of chicks before they are incubated is getting a $844,000 boost from Canadian Agricultural Adaptation Program (CAAP), Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada Minister Lawrence MacAulay has announced. The funds will help Egg Farmers of Ontario test and develop a patented egg-scanning technology called the Hypereye at the pre-commercialization […] Read more

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