Chickens stand in an enriched, or colony, cage system that gives them a darkened area for nesting at the JS West farm in 2011 in Atwater, Calif. For the past two years, at an undisclosed location in ...

Further, cage systems have a working life of 30 years or more. Older cages aren't made to divide out evenly into seven, eight or nine birds. "You'd end up having to cut a chicken in half and put 7½ ...

The government announced measures to prevent avian influenza and foot-and-mouth viruses that include bigger cages at newly opened poultry farms. According to Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural ...

“A victory for animals.” That’s what philosopher Peter Singer, a luminary of the animal protection movement, called it last week when Utah’s Governor Spencer Cox signed into law Bill 147, which ...

The deep litter system of rearing birds is one of the popular methods embraced by commercial poultry farmers in Uganda. However, the system comes at the expense of big spaces, and a couple of other ...

Bernadette just turned 10 years old. Last year she laid three eggs, an amazing amount given that she is, in human years, a centenarian. For the past decade, I’ve kept backyard hens, which supply me ...

For the past two years, at an undisclosed location in the Upper Midwest, a large commercial egg farm has been probed with every tool of modern science. Researchers have collected data on feed consumed ...

The cage system has helped Vincent Ssenoga take up more birds than would have been possible under the deep litter system. Photo by Desire Mbabaali The deep litter system of rearing birds is one of the ...