BC Chicken Newsletter for December 1, 2025.

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Welcome to your December 1, 2025

Issue of the Newsletter

📸 Send us your festive chick-pics?

We’re hatching a new photo collection—for newsletter covers, etc—and want to see your birds, your barns, and your chicken-themed treats or moments.

With your permission, we may feature them in a future newsletter or even on our social media channel(s). Snap away this season! Submit those images to our Manager of Communications at michaelprins@bcchicken.ca

Responding to HPAI

We trust you are staying informed about the response to the ongoing HPAI outbreak locally and in BC. Emails are sent as information is confirmed.

In the past seven weeks, BC has 31 confirmed Infected Premises—only 4 new in the last two weeks. Action has been taken or is being scheduled for all sites. Fraser Valley Primary Control Zones 1 to 11 are activated.

If you have questions or concerns about protocols, forms, zones, or more related to the impacts of HPAI, please reach out:

BC Poultry EOC: eoc.admin@bcpoultry.org

BCCMB Office: info@bcchicken.ca or 604-859-2868

CFIA's DBS hotline: 604-796-6017

CFIA’s Sick Bird hotline: 1-403-338-5225

"Canadian Food Guardians" Campaign

A new national advertising campaign recently launched to highlight Canada’s supply-managed farmers and their essential role in our national food security. It's being run online only, targeting Canadian consumers aged 18-34. Maybe you've already seen it in your social media feeds.

The campaign is a collaboration between Dairy Farmers of Canada, Egg Farmers of Canada, Chicken Farmers of Canada, Turkey Farmers of Canada, and the Canadian Hatching Egg Producers.

Visit Food Guardians Webpage

Watch the 15-sec Commercial

Canada Updates Weather Alerts

The Canadian government is launching a new alert system to help protect Canadians during extreme weather. Environment and Climate Change Canada will use a colour-coded system—alerts for yellow, orange, or red— to make the severity and risks of extreme weather easier to understand.

Read Global News Article on New Weather Alerts

Upcoming Events:

Mark Your Calendars

Pacific Agriculture Show

January 22-24, 2026 - Abbotsford

Join thousands of local farmers and producers for a showcase of the latest and most innovative equipment and technology for the agriculture industry. Over 300 exhibitors will be there with ideas to make your operation more efficient.

Check out the Pacific Ag Show

2026 BC Poultry Conference

March 12-13, 2026 - Langley

The sixth annual BC Poultry Conference is open for registration! The conference includes the BCCMB AGM, which you won't want to miss.

Check out the program highlights, sponsors, and more.

Resources for You:

Programs, Education, and Funding

BC Interior Quota Conditions

NEW GUIDE

The BCCMB shared a user-friendly guide last week, to help clarify some of the finer points about holding quota and growing chicken in the Interior.

It in guide, you will find answers to questions like:

Do these conditions apply to me?

Can I transfer or relocate my quota in the Interior?

What if I'm a New Entrant Grower?

Read BC Interior Region Quota Conditions Guide

CPRC Resources For You

The Canadian Poultry Research Council (CPRC) recently launched a revamped website to showcase made-in-Canada poultry research, share stories of how the research is advancing Canadian poultry production, and provide details on research funding opportunities.

The fully searchable site has stories, fact sheets, scholarship info, and more.

Browse the CPRC Website

BC Agri-Business Planning Program

NOW OPEN

The program is open until December 8th and has two streams:

Stream 1 focuses on Agri-business skills and leadership development, to support access for training around business management, financial literacy, HR, best practices, and more.

Stream 2 focuses on business planning, preparedness, and disaster recovery, to support growth, debt management, sustainability, succession planning, risk assessments, and more.

Perks includes courses or covering fees for workshops, or even consultant services on the many topics involved in good agri-business.

Application is open until December 8, 2025 - apply soon!

Extreme Weather Preparedness Funding

APPLICATIONS STILL OPEN

The IAF is happy to share that Extreme Weather Preparedness (EWP) is now a member of the Beneficial Management Practices (BMP) family. The EWP provides cost-share funding—up to $50,000—to increase the resiliency of existing farming infrastructure for extreme weather events.

Applications for the BMP: EWP category opened October 1.

Application is open until funding is fully committed.

For details on the EWP or future BMP funding opportunities, sign up for their e-newsletter, or you can even book a 10-minute call, check out its webpage.

Read More about EWP

Rules of the Roost:

Best Practice on your Broiler Farm

How Canadian Chicken Farmers Are Reducing Their Environmental Footprint

The CFC has released the results of its latest Lifecycle Assessment (LCA), confirming that Canadian chicken producers have made measurable improvements in reducing their environmental footprint over the past seven years. Thank you—well done, growers!

“This assessment shows that while chicken is already one of the lowest-carbon animal proteins, our sector continues to find ways to further reduce emissions and use resources more responsibly.” - Tim Klompmaker, CFC

Check out their key findings, and download a 3-page infographic (scroll to the bottom of the webpage) that shows the good work worth celebrating!

Read CFC's Sustainability In Action News Release

Period A-202

May 8 – June 27,

2026

CFC Sets Allocation:

Wednesday January 21, 2026

Deadline to submit quota transfer papers: Friday, January 9, 2026

Deadline to submit grower allocation paperwork: Friday January 16, 2026

New Flock Information Reporting Form

UPDATED FORM

The CFC has released an updated Flock Information Reporting Form, with instructions. The previous form, Version 8.0, can be used until the end of 2025, but the updated form, Version 9.0, must be used starting January 1, 2026.

You can download this new version, customized for BC growers, at

bcchicken.ca -> Grower's Login -> Field Service Forms

Watch How-To Complete Flock Form Video

Catching Cost being removed from Live Price

EFFECTIVE in MARCH 2026

The Board announced last week that it will permanently remove the Catching cost line from both the BC Cost of Production (COP) formula and the BC Live Price, effective in the quota period after the full update of the BC COP formula. That is, the Board is targeting completion of the COP update for A-200, with removal of Catching beginning in A-201 (beginning March 8, 2026).

This aligns BC's practices with the rest of Canada.

Read the Catching Cost Update Memo

Broiler Quota Ads

For Sale:

106 acre Broiler farm on quiet dead-end road in Armstrong, BC:

- 90 useable acres currently planted in wheat

- 73,000 kg of mainstream broiler quota

-capacity for 94,275kg in 3 separate barns

- Large machine shed, workshop, horse barn, and multiple-purpose building

- Beautiful >4,000sq ft home with swimming pool.

Please contact Bud for more info: 250-549-0890.

For Sale:

Interior quota. 20,000 birds available. Call Bud: 250-549-0890.

For Sale:

Island quota for sale at $80/bird. 17,233 birds (33,243 kgs) available.

Call for more info: 250-863-6734.