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 ...

Battery cages are a housing system used for egg-laying hens. The name arises from the arrangement of rows and columns of identical cages connected as units of four to eight tiers as in artillery ...

There was a lot of pitiful grousing this week on social media about the law requiring commercial poultry farms keep hens cage ...

Layer hens typically are housed in sheds the lengths of football fields in long rows of battery cages, which are stacked several tiers high. The small cages hens live in are termed “battery cages.” A ...

Almost two-thirds of Canadians support banning the use of battery cages to house egg-laying chickens, a new poll shows. Across the country, 63 percent of Canadians would back a legislative ban on ...

Egg prices are once again rising across the U.S., as the bird flu plaguing the country lingers on and people get ready to bake for the festive season. But while the issue is nationwide, prices are ...

Mr. Boerger’s (Jan. 3) diatribe about the price of “woke” eggs made it clear where he stands on the subject of hens: “we raise chickens for meat and eggs.” Where the chickens stand is not his ...

It's not just Michigan's cage-free law that is making eggs hard to find. Daley told MIRS that he believes the price increases ...

The use of battery cages for birds was banned in the UK in 2012. But there are still more than 1.1m chickens in Scotland kept in "enriched cages", which provide birds with more room to nest ...

Most large-scale egg producers to whom the law would apply have been working toward cage-free operations for up to a decade.

Cage-free hens can wander about their barn, which is certainly a step up from the cramped conditions of battery cages. These ...