Thailand's poultry sector is poised to grow this year, as an avian flu outbreak in top exporter Brazil creates market ...

Canada's top grocers promised to go cage-free by 2025. Now they’ve backed out—leaving millions of caged hens to suffer.

Behavioral data can be used to enhance genetic selection for poultry breeders and improve cage-free layer performance and ...

During a call with U.S. doctors this month, one CDC official noted that there is a seasonality to bird flu: Cases peak in the ...

FILE – Employees clean parts of the cages and take the last chickens to be slaughtered inside a poultry ... What’s more, a patchwork system that monitors viruses in sewage and wastewater has suggested ...

It's not worth the cost of eggs — cage-free chicken farming ... the entire flock is excluded from the food system, ultimately affecting the country’s egg supply. As of Jan. 6, the bird ...

regardless of housing system. Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza continues to impact the poultry industry, particularly cage-free egg producers, NDA said. According to the Centers for Disease ...

A new law takes effect on Dec. 31 requiring eggs sold in the state to come from hens raised in cage-free housing system ... according to Michigan Allied Poultry Industries. An additional 6 ...

“If I had the choice between an egg from a caged chicken versus an egg from a cage ... farms that have to completely change their barn system now, that is a huge overhead,” Koopsen said.

Wholesale prices for chicken eggs increased ... the cost of switching from one housing system to another will still likely be pushed on to consumers in 2025. Cage-free housing systems require ...

but in most cases where a farm has switched to cage-free, it means they’ve set up an “aviary system” in which hundreds of chickens are free to move around within a single shared barn ...

Cage-free production also introduces additional variability and risk into the production system, including more ... according to Michigan Allied Poultry Industries. The top producers include ...