Ranger Magazine

The Ranger magazine is the leading authority in free range production. Published monthly by the British Free Range Egg Producers Association it is available to members in printed format and digital download. To access back issues you have to be a member of the Association.

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Latest Issues

January 2022

New outbreaks of AI are multitude and impossible to report on in a monthly magazine, but housing birds was only one tool we have in our arsenal to reduce the risk of infection.

Enhanced biosecurity is the king of prevention. Housing birds reduces the risk of AI infection two-fold, routine biosecurity four-fold but enhanced biosecurity forty-four-fold. To put this into context, APHA reported that biosecurity was the number one issue to infection – which means strict biosecurity can prevent most infections.

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December 2021

Maybe our luck just ran out? It was inevitable that migration after migration in which AI skirted around the 26 million free range birds in previous years, that sooner or later we were going to have a free range ‘Annus Horribilis.’

‘But for the grace of God go I,’ and it’s not over. I am constantly kept abreast of the news, surprisingly earlier than anywhere else, through the BFREPA Telegram group. When discussing the impending housing order, someone asked, ‘How much of this prevention order will be biosecurity, and how much will a housing order?’ Prevention is 100% biosecurity backed up by housing. Every case in broilers has been in housed birds; every case in turkeys has been in housed turkeys. It is not inconceivable; we will likely see further instances of AI even while confined within a housing order.

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November 2021

You can only sell £10 notes for £9 for so long! We need some answers to surpluses. We have too much egg.

The market has tightened somewhat, but it should be different right now leading up to Christmas.

Brexit has now enabled the EU to offset their egg surpluses into the UK, which the UK waves in with a cheap food policy. Yet, we are unable to do the same.

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