Today the new NFU Poultry board met for the first time & shared their priorities with National Farmers' Union Vice President Rachel Hallos. Farm assurance, fairness in the supply chain & food labelling were all hot topics. Hear from the chair & vice chair 👉 nfuonline.com/updates-and-in… #poultry

Today NFU Poultry members attended an APPG event in parliament for pigs, eggs and poultry meat 🥓🥚🍗 It was a great opportunity to raise key issues such as supply chain fairness, access to labour, avian influenza and trade with Ministers, MPs and Peers 💬 #ProudofPoultlry

❗️Hot off the press Defra UK announcement at today's NFU Poultry Research Seminar re GB Poultry Register which:
1. Extends registration to all kept birds
2. Reduces bird threshold from 50 to 1
3. Introduces annual registration
More info 👉gov.uk/government/con… #poultry

Our final speaker at today's NFU Poultry Research Seminar is egg producer David Throup presenting his Nuffield Farming study into storage and use of poultry manures, including composting, drying and pelleting for fertilisers, burning for heat, and as a substrate for AD plants 🌎

Our penultimate speaker today is Sam Laing from AvaraFoods sharing insights from their #research project looking at feeding insect protein to broilers, with insect oil reducing global warming impact of the feed by 4% and insect meal reducing impact by 28% 🐔🐜🌎

Dr Maureen Wakefield from Fera is outlining their #research into insect bioconversion, including investigating the safety of using poultry manure as a potential substrate for #insect rearing 🐜

'Around 80% of carbon emissions from poultry meat and egg production come from the feed' 🌎First up in our session on Sustainable Poultry Production is Dr Fiona Short from CIELivestock outlining priority areas for reducing GHG emissions in #poultry production

Dr Sarah Struthers from The Roslin Institute is up next at our Poultry Research Seminar, discussing her postdoctoral research into beak shape and how this can influence feather pecking in laying hens 🥚🐔 #poultry #research

Our next NFU Poultry Research Seminar speaker is Shaun Cawthraw from APHA discussing how APHA collaborates with the poultry sector to investigate on farm instances of salmonella in poultry #research #poultry

Our first panel discussion of the day saw APHA Prof Ash Banyard and Defra UK Gordon Hickman take questions from attendees on AI vaccination, disease control zones, surveillance and how the virus might behave in future 💬
#poultry #research

Our second NFU Poultry Research Seminar speaker is Prof Ash Banyard from APHA outlining the FluMAP and FluTrailMap AI #research projects, including virus evolution, biosecurity application, and prevalence & immune response in wild birds #poultry

The 6th annual NFU Poultry Research Seminar is underway 🐔🥚🍗 with Defra UK Head of Exotic Disease Policy Gordon Hickman giving an update on the work of the joint government and industry AI vaccine taskforce 💉 #poultry #research