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 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 ...

Small-wired cages being used in poultry farms are killing hens in India, according to a five-month-long survey conducted by Pune-based NGO Animal Equality. Each cage has a 67-sq inch space, which is ...

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 ...

The B2B WATT Poultry is out with its 2023 special issue of the egg industry. It is a source of hard-to-find market data about the egg industry, just as high egg prices and shortages capture consumer ...

Lawmakers and activists on Thursday urged the government to support a transition to cage-free chicken farming after Taiwan ranked sixth out of 17 countries in Asia in an independent report that ...

The Inkukukaya cage was designed by Botswana poultry farmer, John (Butch) Vaughan-Davies, who approached South African plastic injection moulder, Ian Dickinson, for manufacturing. Dickinson took 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 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 ...