Down in the Garden: Growing Chooks
One of my happiest childhood memories is of my mother’s bantam collection. I say ‘collection’ because this flock of birds must have featured just about every variant available at the…
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165,000+ submissions received on poultry welfare
A record number of submissions has been received on the draft Australian Animal Welfare Standards and Guidelines for Poultry (S&Gs) during the 90 days public consultation period, which closed on…
Poultry industry could be growing too quickly
Community opposition is growing to the expansion of intensive poultry farming in the Coast’s mountains district. Two applications, worth $2.5m in total, to expand existing sheds and build new ones…
EPA fines Mangrove Mountain chicken works
The NSW Environment Protection Authority (EPA) has issued two $15,000 penalty notices and six official cautions to Supreme Poultry and Chickens Pty Ltd for two breaches of the conditions of…