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 ...
Free-range poultry and cage-free eggs may command higher prices in the supermarket, but they offer consumers little or no demonstrable benefit in food safety or quality, animal health and welfare, or ...
“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 ...
Australia will phase out conventional layer hen cages by 2036 The Independent Poultry Welfare Panel has also recommended better welfare standards for meat chickens Victorian Farmers Federation say the ...
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 ...
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 ...