EU welfare standards for laying hens due to come into force this week will ban conventional 'barren' battery cages from 2012. However, the agriculture department in Britain, DEFRA, is set to do ...

Layer hens typically are housed in sheds the lengths of football fields in long rows of battery cages, which are stacked several tiers high. The small cages hens live in are termed “battery cages.” A ...

Battery cages are a housing system used for egg-laying hens. The name arises from the arrangement of rows and columns of identical cages connected as units of four to eight tiers as in artillery ...

The organisation is calling for a ban on all types of cages for egg-laying hens by 2007. A new European directive will outlaw battery cages throughout Europe from 2012. However, the law still ...

The use of battery cages for birds was banned in the UK in 2012. But there are still more than 1.1m chickens in Scotland kept in "enriched cages", which provide birds with more room to nest ...

Professor Christine Nicol obtained a degree in Zoology from the University of Oxford, and then completed a PhD on the welfare of laying hens housed in battery cages. Her concern for the welfare ...

Battery cages can be as small as an A4 piece of paper and are widely considered to be cruel to chickens. The practice is banned in most of Europe, including the UK, along with Mexico, Israel and ...

However, Alberta’s egg industry has made a substantial shift away from battery cages for chickens, the previous standard housing for hens. As of the end of 2023, 63 per cent of Alberta farms had ...