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Bird health and sustainability at centre of free-range egg enterprise

A passion for poultry led Ivory Arden to a career in the industry

Angela Calvert
Head of Livestock, Shows and Sales
clock • 8 min read
Ivory Arden says keeping everything to a very high standard is crucial with cleanliness top of the agenda along with biosecurity.
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Ivory Arden says keeping everything to a very high standard is crucial with cleanliness top of the agenda along with biosecurity.

Growing up on her family's Lincolnshire farm, Ivory Arden always preferred poultry to other livestock and started rearing chickens in the garden, setting up an egg round selling to local customers, as...

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