Welcome - FAI

Focused on the "three Es" of Environment (securing the planet in the face of the challenge of climate change), Economics (food must be affordable) and Ethics (food must be produced safely and with the welfare of the animal in mind), FAI farms commercially adjacent to the banks of the River Thames at Wytham, Oxfordshire, and undertakes farm-scale research to improve animal welfare within a commercial farming system. FAI shares its findings via the website and offers regular comment on matters of concern to today's farmers.

Farm Diary
What's going on "down on the farm" - a regular update of day-to-day management issues and our hopes for the future. This week, the cattle enjoy a little early spring sunshine, the pigs are eating us out of house and home and demand increases for "welfare-friendly" chicken

Poultry Technicians vacancies – Oxford circa Ł18k
FAI Farms Ltd. is at the forefront of animal welfare research and is currently undertaking a 5 year research project into selective breeding of broiler chickens to enhance standards of bird welfare.

Friends of FAI Newsletter September 2007
The latest edition of our occasional publication is available now for downloading.

FAI sets out to produce new broiler parent stock
FAI Farms will be working on a five-year project funded by the Tubney Charitable Trust to develop and test commercially a genetic selection process which will lead to a new breed of broiler chicken which meets the requirement of the organic and free range markets and enables a more relaxed system of barn production...