North Carolina’s poultry farms are everywhere. The state cloaks big poultry in secrecy to the point regulators don’t even know where most of the farms are located. Neighbors complain about the stench ...

Sometime during or after lockdown, a substantial number of people decided it would easier to raise their own chickens than buying eggs from the grocery store. With worldwide supply chain issues due to ...

Proposals worth £4m were unveiled as part of two separate planning applications to establish the same units. Now a third application has been lodged.

Free-range chickens may have greater exposure to bird flu than their caged compatriots because the free flocks have access to outdoor areas that could be visited by wild birds believed to be a primary ...

According to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), each American eats approximately 94 pounds of chicken a year (1). The consumption of chicken is expected to grow in the coming years, ...

Free-range poultry and cage-free eggs may command higher prices in the supermarket, but they offer consumers little or no demonstrable benefit in food safety or quality, animal health and welfare, or ...

Chicken producer Perdue Farms has been expanding the volume of free-range chickens it sells in an effort to provide a higher-quality product, as well as to boast a better lifestyle for the birds. That ...

That’s a question free-range egg producers have been pondering lately as they try to be open about their product while also protecting chickens from a highly infectious bird flu that has killed ...