It's not worth the cost of eggs — cage-free chicken farming, that is. On March 21, Gov. Katie Hobbs ordered a delay in the enforcement of cage-free chicken farming in Arizona in the hopes of lowering ...

Discover how cage-free and outdoor systems increase ectoparasite exposure in layers. Northern fowl mites, red mites, and bed ...

When Daniel Abiliba was growing up in northern Ghana, caring for animals was part of his daily life. He shepherded cows before school. His family had a donkey, dogs, goats, cattle, and assorted ...

Popular conceptions of farming tend to associate good animal welfare with environmental virtue — an intuition so strong that researchers have described a “humane halo” effect, where consumers who are ...

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Back when egg prices remained securely under $2 a dozen in 2021, Nevada joined several other states concerned about animal welfare in requiring cage-free eggs. Now four years later, a ...

WAUKON, Iowa (AP) -- Alert and curious, hundreds of hens with bright red crowns and faces strolled out of a large chicken house midmorning into the fresh air and a fenced pasture amid rolling fields ...

Opinion: Kroger egg protesters want change. Let consumers decide.

Virtue signaling may be in part to blame for the sky-high price of eggs across the US, with cartons fetching as much as $12 to $15 a dozen in pricey states like California and New York. The current ...

There was a time when cage-free eggs were a rarity. Now, they comprise almost half of all chicken eggs produced in the U.S., according to a new report by the Open Wing Alliance. There are over 300 ...

Of course, you can pick between brown and white eggs, but beyond color, there's also a litany of labels differentiating each ...

Cage-free chickens stand in a fenced pasture on the Francis Blake organic farm, Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2015, near Waukon, Iowa. Blake gathers an average of 2,500 dozen eggs a week from his flock of 5,000 ...