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 ...

The UK government's move to ban enriched colony cages within 6 years has been criticised by farming organisations. In a consultation that opened in ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Injured, crammed and struggling to breathe. That is the condition of hens forced into small illegal battery cages in the egg industry. A recent investigation by Animal Equality showed that hens were ...

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 ...