animal care Archives

Podcast: What’s with all the different types of eggs?

In this podcast, we will break down the different options available and talk about egg nutrition with Registered Dietitian Rosie Schwartz.

Farm Animal Well-Being During Transport

The well-being of animals during transport is not only a moral imperative but also a critical component of ensuring food safety.

Traceability: Locating And Controlling Disease Along The Food Chain

You may have never heard of traceability, but it plays a very important role in managing animal health and food safety in Canada.

Ensuring Animal Welfare On Canadian Farms

Animal welfare is a term that covers both the physical and mental wellbeing of an animal. Good animal welfare means an animal is growing or producing normally, is healthy, free from pain and injury and displays normal behaviour.

Biosecurity: Keeping Animals Healthy On Canadian Farms

Biosecurity refers to procedures that prevent the introduction of diseases and reduce the frequency and severity of infection when they occur.

What are Codes of Practice for Animal Care

Codes Of Practice: The Building Blocks that Ensure Farm Animal Care.

Poultry Housing In Canada – Where And How Do Chickens Live?

Farmers in Canada raise two types of chickens – those produced for meat and those that lay eggs. And although they’re both poultry, there are some differences in how they live on Canadian farms.

Chicken Farm Takes it Full Circle

Six or seven times a year, about 90,000 freshly-hatched chicks are dropped off at the Martinka broiler chicken operation. The Martinka family has been in the chicken business for 15 years.

Meet a Canadian Chicken Farmer

Evesque loves working with these birds and appreciates the opportunity to produce a product consumers want. Evesque produces 50,000 kilograms of chicken every few months.

Pork From Farm to Table

There are more than 7,000 pig farms across Canada that raise more than 25.5 million animals a year. Learn how pork gets from farm to table.

What is a Broiler Chicken?

Ask a Farmer: What is a broiler chicken? Canadian chicken farmer, Tiffany Martinka answers.

New Legislation Protects Farm Animals and Farmers

New legislation aimed at protecting animals and the family farmers who care for these animals.

Chicken Farming with the Keets

The Keets raise broiler chickens, which are those raised for meat (versus layer chickens, which produce eggs) Find out more about their daily activities.

Chicken from Farm to Table

Learn the different steps taken to get chickens from the farm to the table.

How are Bison Raised?

Tour a bison ranch and learn how bison are sustainably raised in Canada.

How are Beef Cattle Raised?

Canadian cattle are raised in a sustainable, economically viable, environmentally sound and socially responsible way.

What Happens on a Trout Farm?

Solely catching fish in the wild will lead to overfishing, which is unsustainable. That’s where fish farms come in. Take a virtual tour of a trout farm.