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Fowl pox is a pox virus that mostly affects chickens, but can also affect turkeys, pheasants and pigeons.
Infectious coryza is an acute respiratory disease caused by the bacterium Haemophilus paragallinarum and has been recognised since the 1930’s. Although a similar disease is found in quail and pheasant...
From the 1st February 2023, eggs that come from housed, originally free range flocks in Norfolk, Suffolk and parts of Essex now have to be labelled barn eggs.
Updated: 01.08.2024
Red mites can invade at any time, but warmer UK weather is set to give them a significant advantage as they thrive in warmer conditions. This has caused a considerable increase in red mite infestation...
As we navigate out of the worst ever outbreak of avian influenza on British shores, Livetec is delighted to announce that our work helping the nation’s poultry farmers weather tough biosecurity challe...
Poultry production has changed dramatically over the past twenty years. Another thing which has changed in this time is the weather, with temperatures across the UK often exceeding 30 degrees in the s...
An interesting study investigates attitudes to biosecurity on British broiler farms.
The avian influenza (AI) outbreak of 2021 and 2022 Cases of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) across the UK and Ireland hit a new high between November 2020 and March 2021, with a record 26 cas...
On the 29th September 2021 the Livetec Operations team were called to a farm based in Angus, a county in Scotland. Following extensive tests, it was confirmed that an infection had started sweeping th...
