Stay Informed, Stay Empowered: Download the Standard ePaper App! 1. Initial Housing costs The initial cost of establishing poultry units in a cage system is higher than an in-floor system.

It also seeks to make Ghana the first African country to implement a total cage-free poultry system. Presently, 62 farmers in the Greater Accra and Ashanti regions are members of the network.

On March 21, Gov. Katie Hobbs ordered a delay in the enforcement of cage-free chicken farming in Arizona in the hopes of lowering the cost of eggs.

A state law requiring that all eggs sold in Colorado’s grocery stores be cage-free goes into effect on Jan. 1, and businesses, producers and consumers will all feel the impact of the change.

In a typical cage-free environment, thousands of hens are free to roam inside a poultry barn. Problems appear, however, when skittish hens injure themselves by crashing into walls or workers.

The Trump administration has sued California over the state's voter-approved animal welfare law, which protects hens, pigs ...

A farmer lobby group says the phasing out of battery caged eggs will have a huge impact on food security in Australia, but advocates say it doesn't come soon enough.

Grocery stores and egg producers are gearing up for some big changes. Taking effect Jan. 1, all eggs sold in the state must come from cage-free chickens.

Participants at the West Africa Free chicken conference have expressed concerns about the suffering of birds brought about by the rising trends of battery cage systems.

PETALING JAYA: Poultry farmers will be affected by the switch from the current open cage system to the closed house system, says Datuk Seri Dr Wee Ka Siong.