Free-range and organic chickens are twice as likely to carry a food poisoning bacteria than battery hens, it emerged today. Initial findings from Government-sponsored research show significantly ...

Cage-free does not mean ‘free-range,’ which is why cage-free chickens ... In fact, of the 13.6 million egg-laying hens that were depopulated in late 2023, California alone accounted for ...

Plans for a large egg farm housing tens of thousands of hens have been hatched. The proposal at Bradfords Farm, near Marsh Benham in Berkshire, could see about 32,000 chickens housed in the new ...

Plans for a massive egg farm near Newbury have been hatched. The proposal at Bradfords Farm near Marsh Benham could see around 32,000 hens there.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture designates “cage-free” and “free-range” practices as those ... least 75,000 now house over 95% of egg-laying hens, the United Egg Producers trade group ...

but many say the labels are still justified The chickens and eggs you buy at this time of year are not free-range despite the label Shoppers are paying extra for ‘free-range’ eggs and meat ...

unless they come from facilities with fewer than 20,000 hens or facilities that raise their hens cage-free. Over the next several years, more legal changes are to come with respect to egg-laying hens.

The unit would house 8,000 free range laying hens, together with egg packing and storage facilities, feed silos, and hardstanding areas for parking and turning of vehicles. Show more The agents ...

It does not mean free-range hens that can go outside ... “We are in a complete deficit of egg-laying hens,’’ he said. That is complicated, Bray said, by the flu spreading into the pullets ...