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Welcome to The Poultry Network Podcast, hosted by Tom Woolman and Tom Willings — your insider guide to the UK’s poultry meat and egg production sectors. From farm to fork, we bring you expert insights, latest trends, and stories that shape the food on our plates.
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Ep 59 | From the Poultry Meat Conference 26: Water waste and heat stress: rethinking the broiler shed (opens the original)
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Are broiler drinkers delivering more water than birds can actually drink? Ziggity Systems’ André van Rij made that case at this year’s Poultry Meat Conference, questioning whether recommended flow rates leave farms dealing with unnecessary spillage—and whether catch cups introduce more problems than they solve. Recorded at the event, Jake Davies and Tom Woolman discuss his argument for removing catch cups and getting drinker height right. It challenges a familiar setup on UK broiler farms, altho
Ep 58 | FAI and Birdbox: Listening to hens, the next step in flock monitoring? (opens the original)
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Could the sounds inside a poultry house help producers spot health and welfare problems before they develop? This week, Jake and Tom are joined by Carly Scott, FAI director and BirdBox project lead , and Professor Lucy Asher of Newcastle University to discuss the next generation of BirdBox and the research behind its flock-monitoring technology. The project began around a decade ago with a challenge from the Lakes Free Range Egg Company: bring together the information collected on farms and acro
EP 57: Host Episode; Poultry Network Live – confidence, caution and the people challenge (opens the original)
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Recorded at Harper Adams immediately after Poultry Network Live, Tom Willings and Tom Woolman reflect on the biggest messages from a day of debate, technical insight and practical discussion across the egg and broiler sectors. And, before any of that, there is an overdue update on Tom’s increasingly determined escape-artist sheep. They discuss Patrick Hook’s candid account of the planning system, rising construction costs and why poultry businesses need to engage more openly with MPs and their l
EP 56: Mark Williams, BEIC Chair: Imported eggs, Salmonella and the case for tougher border controls (opens the original)
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Imported eggs are under growing scrutiny following a UK Salmonella outbreak involving three genetically distinct clusters, around 470 cases and two deaths at the time this episode was recorded. Tom Woolman and Tom Willings are joined by Mark Williams, chairman of the British Egg Industry Council , to examine what is known about the outbreak and how the UK egg sector is responding. Mark explains why the BEIC has worked to ensure media coverage distinguishes between imported eggs and eggs produced
Ep 55 | Barry Jackson: Why the UK egg market has softened – and what comes next (opens the original)
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After four years of tight supply and firm prices, the UK egg market has changed quickly this summer. More egg has reached the wholesale market just as seasonal demand has eased, bringing values down sharply and raising a difficult question: is this a temporary summer correction, or has the market turned? Tom Willings and Tom Woolman are joined by Barry Jackson, whose career spans shell egg, processing, co-operatives, factory development and supply strategy. Barry explains why the wholesale marke
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