Traditional cages still account for 90 percent of the company's production, but when those houses wear out, they will be replaced with either cage-free houses or enriched cages, sometimes called ...

There are renewed calls from animal rights advocates for an end to colony-cage egg farms. The Open Wing Alliance launched an ...

However, there are still more than 1.1 million chickens in Scotland kept in “enriched cages”, which provide birds with more room to nest, roost and scratch than the smaller battery cages.

More than 1.1 million chickens in Scotland are kept in “enriched cages”, which provide birds with more room to nest, roost and scratch than the smaller battery cages.

Traditional cages still account for 90 percent of the company's production, but when those houses wear out, they will be replaced with either cage-free houses or enriched cages, sometimes called ...

After the ban of conventional cages, producers had the option to move to colony cages, barns and free-range systems.

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 ...

The results are in from a long-running study of three different ways to house egg-laying chickens. It found that more hens survive in cages, and cages are cheaper. But consumers prefer cage-free eggs.