Turkey Eggs Sent to the Falkland Islands

In 1982, following the Falklands War, we supplied 60 fertile turkey eggs to the Falkland Islands to help replenish local poultry stocks. Our company history records that turkeys had disappeared from the islands during the conflict and that the eggs were flown out as part of the effort to restock them. A surviving notice from the Veterinary Office in Port Stanley, dated 3 November 1982, provides contemporary confirmation of the shipment. It records that turkey eggs had recently been imported from the UK and distributed to islanders free of charge. The eggs came through the Anglian Turkey Association from the Kelly family's operation in Danbury-identified in the document as "Kelloy's of Danbury"-and were from a medium-strain Wrolstad turkey flock. The notice also confirms that the supplying flock participated in the UK's Poultry Health Scheme. For our family business, it was an unusual assignment at a difficult point in the Falklands' history. The contemporary evidence supports describing it as a practical effort to replenish poultry resources after the war; broader claims that the shipment formed part of an ecosystem or wildlife-restoration programme are not supported by the records located.