Egg production farming is a lucrative business in Kenya. The industry has a population of 5.58 million commercial laying flocks producing about 1.6 billion eggs annually, according to the 2019 census ...

Guest Opinion. This time of year, poultry gets a lot of attention, particularly turkeys. So I’ve been thinking about how we ...

Mr John Njuguna the director of Renray Poultry Solutions collecting eggs in his farm located in Ruiru, Kiambu County.[FILE,Standard] Most poultry farmers in Kenya are practising the deep-litter system ...

Unfortunately not all battery cages for laying hens are to be prohibited in the European Union as was reported (3 August, p 18). Under the 1999 Directive on the Welfare of Laying Hens, all ...

December 31, 2025, is the deadline that many of the world’s largest food companies set nearly a decade ago to end the cruel confinement of egg-laying hens in battery cages. These companies — giants ...

It’d be difficult for Gene Gregory’s defense of battery-cage egg production to be more misleading in Monday’s guest column “Battery cages are good for chickens.” Gregory’s assertions are false or ...