Animal welfare activists have long been speaking about the cruel practices involved in poultry farming, especially the use of battery cages. (Representative image) CHENNAI: Animal welfare activists ...

Changes around male chick culling, the use of cages, and poultry breeding policies, have been highlighted in the new British animal welfare strategy.

The campaign to ban battery cages in poultry farming is fast gaining momentum as more farmers across the country sign on to the use of free cages in rearing domestic avians. At a recent workshop in ...

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 ...

A survey of 20 poultry farms on the outskirts of Mumbai and Pune in Maharashtra, Hyderabad and Haryana by between August and December 2016 revealed confining hens in such cages leads to a number of ...

The poultry industry has lashed out at activists and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) opposing the use of cages to raise the birds. The industry refuted activists’ claims that the birds were not ...

Hyderabad: Poultry farmers will have to soon end battery cage farming and go for cage free egg farming as the Law Commission of India has asked the Centre to notify the rules framed in 2012 to ...

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 ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... 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, ...

Each spring, the World Poultry Science Association hosts presentations from the leading lights of research. Jake Davies reports from the latest meeting in Nottingham Bird breed rather than extra ...