Useful links for more information

Barns:

Look inside an operating egg barn and learn about the different ways of housing egg laying birds at this fabulous site by the Ontario Farm Animal Council:

www.virtualfarmtours.ca

In 2012, the OFAC morphed into Farm and Food Care – Ontario; excellent resources on animal and environmental care are here:

www.farmfoodcare.org

More on chicken farming in general at the Chicken Farmers of Canada:

www.chicken.ca

Nutrition:

Lots of helpful information about eating and storing eggs can be found at the site for the Egg Farmers of Ontario:

www.eggs.ca

Et en francais, ici: Federation des producteurs d’ouefs de consummation du Quebec:

www.ouef.ca

Information for making healthy food choices:

www.healthcheck.org

Care of commercial chickens:

A very interesting blog devoted to farm animal welfare and media coverage of other ethical farming issues can be found at:

www.LetsTalkFarmAnimals.com

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) website gives important information on biosecurity as well as an alarming list of nasty animal diseases:

www.inspection.gc.ca

The World Poultry Science Association was created in 1921. The main website is in Dutch, but this link will take you to a fascinating cache of information about food safety, animal welfare and a cool animated illustration of egg product processing:

www.wpsa-foodsafety.com

The National Farm Animal Care Council website contains the code of practice for care and handling of animals for many kinds of farms. The entire poultry farm booklet of guidelines can be read at:

 www.nfacc.ca/codes-of-practice

 

Burnbrae:

The Burnbrae website contains plenty of information about animal care and food safety; the company’s animal welfare policy is also available on request.

www.burnbraefarms.com


More specific information on how chickens lay eggs:


www.wisegeek.org/how-exactly-do-chickens-lay-eggs.htm