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Hen Housing Systems: Page 19
Cage-Free Laying Systems
Cage-free aviary housing eyed in layer performance test
More than a year after North Carolina State University announced a project to expand its research of aviary laying systems, the university is looking for additional funding to make the project a reality.
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Producing healthy poultry meat in a cost-effective way
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Learn how poultry processing solutions can optimize equipment uptime and increase yield.
Egg Production
Canada egg industry to phase out conventional housing
A transition from conventional housing systems in Canadian egg production toward other housing methods has begun, Egg Farmers of Canada (EFC) announced.
Egg Production
Infographic: What the egg industry is talking about
Find out what everyone's saying about cage-free housing, improving laying hen welfare and more in the most recent digital edition of Egg Industry magazine.
Cage-Free Laying Systems
Laying hen housing systems: It’s about trade-offs
A study from the Coalition for a Sustainable Egg Supply resulted in showing several trade-offs among three types of laying hen housing systems: conventional cages, enriched cages and cage-free (aviary) systems.
Egg Production
Cage-free housing continues to gain momentum in 2016
Even though the avian flu outbreak of 2015 was the most costly foreign animal disease outbreak ever suffered by the U.S. poultry industry, the cage-free egg purchase pledges made by major foodservice and food processing companies in the U.S. will be the development that has the longest-lasting impact on U.S. egg producers.
Cage-Free Laying Systems
US cage-free egg layer flock is rapidly increasing
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) estimates that, in September 2015, the U.S. had 23.6 million hens housed cage free, a 37 percent increase from the agency’s September 2014 estimate. Pledges to purchase eggs from cage-free layers by major restaurant chains and food companies are driving this increase.
Egg Production
Conventional cages banned first in Oregon, Washington
Oregon and Washington may be the first U.S. states to banconventional cages for hens, even though many thought Proposition 2 would makeCalifornia first.
Hen Housing Systems
4 perspectives on sustainable food production
Stakeholders agreed different egg layer housing systems offer thechoice consumers are looking for; which system allows for the most sustainablyproduced food?
Breeding/genetics
Vencomatic Bolegg Gallery aviary system for layers
Vencomatic
Egg Production
Cage-free egg production, more cost than benefits?
The Coalition for a Sustainable Egg Supply conducted field research on a commercial egg farm comparing three housing systems: conventional cages, enriched cages and cage-free aviary.
Egg Production
Egg producers: Be innovative, flexible and transparent
Experts tellU.S. egg producers to be flexible, innovative and transparent regarding layinghen housing alternatives.
Egg Production
What will the future bring for cage housing of layers in the US?
Today’slayer houses are true technological marvels, but economies of scale and theefficiencies of inline operation coupled with all of the automation, climatecontrol and waste handling equipment have worked to drive the cost of a newcomplex higher and higher. When considering investments of tens of millions ofdollars, the question of what type of housing to build, cages (enriched orenrichable) or cage-free (aviary with or without access to outdoors) becomes evenmore significant. In spite of uncertainty regarding what U.S. consumers willdemand in the future, the U.S. egg industry is in the midst of a building boom.
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