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Egg Production

New cage-free layer housing may lower production costs

An innovative equipment-wrap construction design for layer houses offers benefits in construction speed, cost savings.

Brand Insights

Producing healthy poultry meat in a cost-effective way

Baader

Learn how poultry processing solutions can optimize equipment uptime and increase yield.

Breeding & Genetics

Broiler welfare: the conversation you need to have

Activist groups have been extremely successful at securing future purchase pledges from major retail and foodservice poultry buyers for chicken meat from birds that have been either raised without antibiotics at all or without use of antibiotics that are designated as important in human medicine. A similar campaign has succeeded in securing future cage-free egg purchase pledges that may very well lead to a complete conversion of the U.S. egg industry to cage-free housing for pullets and layers. Now, a third campaign is being waged to secure future purchase pledges from chicken meat buyers that would set new standards for how U.S. broilers are raised, stunned and even the breed of the bird that is raised.

Hen Housing Systems

Hickman’s Egg Ranch’s cage-free push

Hickman’s President Glenn Hickman and his brother, Vice President Billy Hickman, say within four years about 80 percent of the company’s egg production will be cage free. The reasoning is plain: The customer demands the product.

Hen Housing Systems

The impact of ‘pet parents’ on poultry welfare

The U.S. layer industry is following in the footsteps of the European layer industry on the path away from conventional cages for housing hens. This conversion is coming about largely as a result of the lobbying of major retail and foodservice egg purchasers by animal welfare/rights groups. As someone who studied the behavior of laying hens in graduate school, but who also has a business degree and experience in large-scale meat bird production, I have been somewhat puzzled by these developments.

Egg Production

Pullet rearing is key to cage-free flock success

Farmers are looking for three things when raising pullets: consistent weight gain, flock uniformity, and high livability. Cage-free husbandry makes achieving these goals much more complicated than in a conventional system.

Egg Production

US egg industry: cage-free demands, flock size increases.

The US egg industry recovered from the avian influenza outbreak, but 2016 challenged the industry with an oversupply situation and rapidly growing demand for cage-free egg production.

Egg Production

US egg producers predict not all hens cage free by 2025

As part of the Top Egg Company Survey, U.S. egg producers were asked to predict the percentages of the total U.S. table egg flock that will be housed in conventional cages, enriched cages and cage free in 2025. Thirty-one egg producers housing around 174 million hens answered the opinion questions in the Top Egg Company survey.

Cage-Free Laying Systems

Guest commentary: Cage-free egg prices will decline as production increases

A guest commentary from Humane Society International says the battery cage has no place in the future of egg production.

Housing & fixed equipment

Jansen Poultry Equipment AviaView aviary system

Jansen Poultry Equipment

Hen Housing Systems

CTB acquires Dutch hen housing equipment company Volito

CTB has acquired the Volito Group B.V., a designer and manufacturer of cage-free layer housing systems.

Cage-Free Laying Systems

Cage-free housing standards: Changes may be coming

Cage-free egg purchase pledges made by major grocery and foodservice egg purchasers are triggering what could be $10 billion investment by U.S. egg producers in cage-free production systems over the next decade.

Hen Housing Systems

Two-thirds of U.S. flock must be cage free to meet demand

Nearly two-thirds of the U.S. layer flock will need to be housed in cage-free system by 2025 to meet anticipated demand, according to figures published by the United Egg Producers.

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