Battery hens to be banned by SEAN POULTER, Daily Mail The tiny cages in which millions of egg-laying hens spend the whole of their miserable lives are to be banned in Britain, it emerged yesterday.

Battery cages prevent hens from exhibiting natural behaviour such as wing flapping, perching and foraging. Battery cages, the most common method of egg production, allow 550cm sq space per bird ...

New life breathed into rescued battery hens. By Esther Han. Updated April 30, 2014 — 1.58pm first published April 29, ... flapping her wings and grabbing it. "They don't lay a lot of eggs, ...

Studies have proven that hens which do not have access to nest while laying eggs (like in the battery cages), show signs of frustration and distress," added Marappam. However, eggs from free range ...

Battery caged hens banned in Australia by 2036 after lengthy battle between egg industry and animal welfare groups. In a major win for animal welfare groups “one of the worst" animal welfare ...

Battery hens - or those living in so-called enriched cages - are meant to each have at least an A4 sheet of paper's worth of space. The Department for Environment, Farming and Rural Affairs (DEFRA ...

The battery system of poultry keeping was a result of the mid-20th ... exercising, running, flying, wing flapping and ... Battery system hens have been shown to have a higher incidence of ...

By 2036, all hens must be in either cage-free housing or in “enriched” cages. Enriched cages, while bigger than battery cages, still restrict natural behaviours like running, full wing ...

A charity which is rehoming thousands of former battery hens says an imminent EU-ban on battery cages means up to four million birds in the UK could slaughtered.