The government is planning to end the use of hen cages as part of a raft of proposals to improve animal welfare standards in England. The measures also include moving away from the use of pig ...

Humane slaughter requirements for farmed fish and end to puppy farming also in new package of animal welfare laws ...

Containment cages are one of the main causes of chronic stress and reduced welfare during swine production as well as in hot environments. The objective of this study was to evaluate behavioral ...

A pig veterinary technician is embarking on a prestigious international scholarship, sponsored by the Yorkshire Agricultural ...

Activists are celebrating “landmark” animal welfare reforms that could spare millions of animals from being gassed to death or suffering in cramped cages for their meat, eggs or fur. Campaigners say ...

A Driffield pig veterinary technician has won a top international scholarship, sponsored by the Agricultural Society, to help guide ...

Nicola Bowers, a pig veterinary technician from East Yorkshire, has received a Nuffield Farming Scholarship to research best practices for managing piglet litters in flexible farrowing systems ...

Regardless of international animal welfare regulations, most sows in production currently spend most of their lives and the peripartum period in caged housing systems. Although this type of management ...

A dazzling sum of €4.4 billion. That is the calculated amount which will cost the transition to modern-style breeding houses ...