“The days of the barren battery cage are over — the writing is on ... In December, Britain enacted measures requiring all poultry in certain parts of the country to be kept indoors in an ...

Of the 202 farmers, 165 used battery cages, while a smaller group of 37 had cage-free systems. The vast majority of hens in ...

Chicken kept under this management system ... system can be divided into two main categories — deep litter and battery cage. In deep litter system, the floor has about 4 to 6 inches of litter.

NAIROBI: The battery system of poultry keeping was a result of the ... In this system layers are confined in cages that are designed to supply food and water and laid eggs rolled out to a ...

Egg farmers are urging the Victorian and federal governments to pause a national phase-out of conventional cage production by 2036, with avian influenza wreaking havoc across the industry.