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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Robert Procaccianti is a Narragansett resident and vice chair of the board of directors of Farm Sanctuary, a farm animal sanctuary and advocacy organization. Lawmakers took a big step back this year ...

In an ongoing campaign to unfetter the caged hen, the Humane Society of the United States plans to file a lawsuit in California today challenging a partial sales tax break for agricultural producers ...

A new kind of freedom is on the horizon, for the hens of Arizona. If an industry-backed bill passes the Legislature, the state could ban the sale of all eggs laid by confined or caged hens, starting ...

France will ban eggs laid by battery cage hens and sold in supermarkets by 2022, the agriculture minister confirmed this week, however the ban will not apply to ingredient eggs used in processed ...

What constitutes the proper and ethical treatment of animals has evolved substantially over the last few decades and, inevitably, will continue to change as people better understand the animals that ...

Bernadette just turned 10 years old. Last year she laid three eggs, an amazing amount given that she is, in human years, a centenarian. For the past decade, I’ve kept backyard hens, which supply me ...

This column is in response to Karen Davis’ Dec. 8 letter to the editor and to Jason Ketola’s Dec. 6 column “See the horrors of battery cages.” United Egg Producers is concerned that the information ...