SARANAC -- A good portion of the four million eggs produced daily at Herbruck's Poultry Ranch end up in Egg McMuffins, Bacon, Egg & Cheese McGriddles or some other McDonald's menu item. So company ...

WASHINGTON, May 24, 2017 - American egg farmers face more challenges than just building new chicken housing as they convert, as now projected, up to half of their 375 million laying hens from cages to ...

Australia will phase out conventional layer hen cages by 2036 The Independent Poultry Welfare Panel has also recommended better welfare standards for meat chickens Victorian Farmers Federation say the ...

Major US egg producer Rembrandt Foods has announced it is to move towards cage-free production, which will further accelerate the growth of the free-range sector. The decision by Rembrandt, which is ...

LIVINGSTON -- What do chickens want? Not so much, really: room for a dust bath, a place to perch, a nest. Absent those three basics -- the nest especially – chickens get stressed, animal behavior ...

For the past two years, at an undisclosed location in the Upper Midwest, a large commercial egg farm has been probed with every tool of modern science. Researchers have collected data on feed consumed ...

Two major US companies, Kellogg’s and TGI Friday, have joined the steady stream of firms pledging to source cage-free eggs, with plans to implement the policy by 2025. Kellogg’s also said it would ...