Alaistaire e Fiona Brice têm vindo a produzir ovos de galinhas criadas em Birch Farm, em Suffolk, Reino Unido, há 16 anos. "Ovos Havensfield felizes" são bem conhecidos na área local e vêm de uma rede de fornecedores locais, incluindo o irmão Alaistaire de Simon, que foi o tema de nosso artigo "porco do Reino Unido e ovo produtor investe em fogo seguinte futuro." 

Demands for cheap meat from austere yet welfare-conscious domestic consumers, soaring input costs, falling carcass sizes and depressed imports all make for an interesting time for UK producers. But all is not doom and gloom, according to the National Farmers Union. 

Around 8.57 billion table eggs were produced in peninsular Malaysia in 2010 (up by 11.8% from 7.6 billion produced in 2009), making it one of the world’s largest producers. The trend is set to continue with 2011 projections coming in around 8.64 billion.

African producers accounted for 4% of world egg production in 2008 – a slight fall on their 1990 share. The region is not a major contributor to global trade nor production.

Avian influenza could be stopped in its tracks by a new technique from researchers at the UK universities of Cambridge and Edinburgh. The scientists have successfully developed genetically modified (transgenic) chickens that cannot transmit avian influenza virus to other birds.