Inside agriculture | Producer group hopes to engage customers with series of YouTube videos
Saskatchewan egg producers want consumers to know more about how they operate. Several of the province’s 67 registered producers have participated in videos that take viewers inside barns and grading facilities. Shawn Harman, a third generation producer at Section 7 Farms near Humboldt, said not many people have the chance to see inside a barn […] Read moreTag Archives poultry
Pasture raised birds problematic for producers
Old-fashioned farming | Couple refocuses efforts on grass-fed pigs and cattle
VIKING, Alta. — The tour could have been called Confessions of a Farmer. Instead of painting a bucolic picture of contented animals happily grazing and frolicking in the fields, Shannon and Danny Ruzicka told about dead stock, poor choices and the pitfalls of raising livestock the old-fashioned way. Visitors may like to see chickens clucking […] Read more
Bacteria challenge a growing concern for producers
Enterococcus | Cases of bacterial lameness linked to the bacteria have risen
Incidents of lameness caused by bacteria normally carried by chickens have challenged prairie poultry producers in recent years. Officials aren’t sure why. Enterococcus cecorum is one species of a bacteria normally found in the animal’s intestine. It’s not typically a concern for growers, but it can result in a bacterial infection in the animal’s spine […] Read moreBirds get TLC from chicken man
Treated like pets | Bill Bryan raises heritage varieties and markets the meat and eggs
NEVILLE, Sask. — Bill Bryan dreamed of owning a pool surrounded by a bunch of chicks. As an adult, the chicken farmer found his Shangri-la in a 25 acre parcel of heavily treed land in southwestern Saskatchewan. Today, his free-range chickens peck at bugs and grasses in a fenced area with a filled-in pool when […] Read more
B.C. chickens will soon be on video
A short movie about chicken production in British Columbia will be supported by the provincial Buy Local campaign. The B.C. Chicken Growers Association will use $15,500 from the campaign to give consumers information on how chicken is produced on family-run chicken farms. B.C. has more than 300 chicken producers. A B.C. government news release said […] Read more
Sask. resumes poultry exports to Taiwan
Sask. resumes poultry exports to Taiwan
Saskatchewan poultry producers have regained access to the Taiwanese market after a five-year trade ban. Federal agriculture minister Gerry Ritz announced Feb. 1 that Taiwan had lifted the ban imposed after avian influenza was found in a Sask-atchewan barn in September 2007. No further cases of the reportable disease were found, and the province has […] Read moreLow-path H5, H7 avian flu added to reportable diseases list
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency announced low pathogenicity H5 and H7 avian influenza viruses have been added to the agency’s list of reportable diseases. This is designed to strengthen its approach to controlling avian influenza in domestic poultry, according to a news release. Effective immediately, all suspected or confirmed cases of low pathogenicity H5 and […] Read more
