Inside a long barn next to rolling fields, Rod Wubbena looked out over 12,000 or so brown hens scratching in the wood chips and fluttering onto perches. The chickens have always been cage-free at Phil ...

The SPCA is asking battery hen farmers to consider converting to barn housing for layer hens as a cage-free farming option. The Egg Producers Federation have announced the proposed change to colony ...

While standing in front of the eggs in the already chilly section of the grocery store, many of us find ourselves face to face with a moral decision. Splurge on the cage-free eggs that cost three time ...

After years of pressure from animal advocates, dozens of food companies have committed themselves to “cage-free” eggs produced by hens not living in the cramped quarters known as battery cages. Now, ...

LIVINGSTON -- What do chickens want? Not so much, really: room for a dust bath, a place to perch, a nest. Absent those three basics -- the nest especially – chickens get stressed, animal behavior ...