Animal activists say they have obtained disturbing footage from a Hunter Valley battery hen farm showing thousands of birds in poor condition stacked inside cramped cages. The footage from the ...

World Animal protection while hosting a webinar has raised concern on the sustainability of the African poultry production, especially with the influx of battery cage systems that have been phased out ...

Turkeys are destined to receive a lot of attention this week both as the centerpieces of many families’ holiday meals and in animal protectionists’ op-ed pieces showing the suffering those turkeys ...

Despite opposition from animal welfare organisations that battery cage poultry farming is cruel, this system is gaining traction among Kenyan farmers who argue they save on space and improve egg ...

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 ...

A new National Farm Animal Care Council code for the care and handling of Canada's laying hens bans new battery cages as of Apr. 1, 2017; the regulations are thanks to an animal rights advocacy ...

KOCHI: The campaign initiated by animal activists against battery cages, where egg-laying hens are confined to cramped congested cages is picking up in Kerala. Sally Varma, senior outreach coordinator ...

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 ...

Battery hen cages are to be banned from 2012, the Government has confirmed. Animal welfare campaigners welcomed the commitment as freeing millions of birds from "one of the cruellest of modern farming ...

In the European Union, hens can no longer be kept in tiny battery cages that pack them so tightly they could not walk or flap their wings. The EU voted to ban the cages in 1999 but gave the poultry ...