PHOENIX — A fire broke out in two barns at Hickman’s Egg Farm in Tonopah on Saturday. About 165,000 egg-laying hens died in the blaze, a spokesperson with Hickman’s Family Farms told ABC 15. The ...
As the troop pulls up to the farm Phelps is directed to the shed housing their last 24 battery hens. They come out - pale, thin, almost bald - dangling upside down from their legs. They peer about ...
Approximately 100,000 chickens were killed in a fire in Connecticut on Jan. 28, state officials said. Photo from the Lebanon Volunteer Fire Department About 100,000 egg-laying hens were killed in a ...
Following the outbreak of H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza at a laying hen farm (89,000 birds) in Sejong City, the government has decided to strengthen quarantine measures, including conducting ...
The Hokkaido government has started to cull some 459,000 laying hens at the farm and imposed a ban on the transportation of ...
The egg industry is moving away from the use of conventional cages to enriched cage and noncage laying hen housing systems because of animal welfare concerns. In this study, the prevalence and ...
NORTHUMBERLAND >> Egg production, like most things in life, is all about timing. Chickens don’t have an on-off switch, so Thomas Poultry Farm raises laying hens in cycles in order to get the most eggs ...
The government has decided to postpone by two years the implementation of the expanded rearing density for laying hens, which was originally scheduled to take effect in September next year. This ...