Egg-laying hens who are forced to spend their entire lives in cages should be banned, some of the leading food companies have said. Currently eight-million birds are kept this way in the UK - with ...

The Ministry for Primary Industries said laying hens foraging outside were thought to have been infected with the H7N6 strain through a low pathogenic virus from wild waterfowl. There are 40,000 ...

but I wouldn’t expect it to soften much going toward Christmas unless the whole bird flu thing subsides and we get a bunch of chickens that mature and start laying eggs,” he said.

Turkeys have a longer life cycle so they need to get to about seven months before they are able to produce laying eggs,' said Kimmon Williams of the National Turkey Federation Chickens only have ...

Linda immediately asks for a meal of chicken with peppers, which reminds her of the dish her father used to make. But with a general strike closing stores all across town and pushing people into ...

The current bird flu outbreak that began in February 2022 has led to the slaughter of more than 111 million birds, mostly egg-laying chickens. Anytime the virus is found, every bird on a farm is ...