The typical life of an egg-laying chicken is beginning to change dramatically. Ninety percent of the eggs we eat come from chickens that live in long lines of wire cages, about eight birds to a cage.

WAUKON, Iowa | Alert and curious, hundreds of hens with bright red crowns and faces strolled out of a large chicken house midmorning into the fresh air and a fenced pasture amid rolling fields of ...

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Without much fuss and even less public attention, the nation's egg producers are in the midst of a multibillion-dollar shift to cage-free eggs that is dramatically changing the ...

Here at The Salt, we've been wondering how egg producers are reacting. So we called up the biggest name in chicken housing, the company Big Dutchman. It's a German company, despite its name, and it ...

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Back when egg prices remained securely under $2 a dozen in 2021, Nevada joined several other states concerned about animal welfare in requiring cage-free eggs. Now four years later, a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Michigan grocery stores are getting ready for a big change that takes effect Jan. 1 when all eggs sold in the state must come from ...