What is an enriched cage?

Enriched cages are similar to conventional battery cages, stacked on top of one another in row upon row, but they also provide limited facilities for nesting, perching and scratching. There are various designs of enriched cages, including colony cages that can house up to 60 or more hens.

What must be included in an enriched cage environment for a caged hen?

‘Enriched’ because the cage includes features such as a scratch area, perch and nest box; ‘colony’ because the number of birds kept in these significantly larger cages are typically up to 80. Depending on the size of the unit there are typically between 40 and 80 birds in each colony.

Which 2 organizations made a historic agreement in 2011 to support federal legislation that would specify housing requirements for laying hens?

The agreement was announced by the nation’s main egg industry group, the United Egg Producers, which represents farmers who own about 80 percent of the nation’s laying hens, and the Humane Society of the United States, the nation’s largest animal protection organization.

When did the EU ban battery cages?

1 January 2012
An EU ban on battery cages comes in to effect on 1 January 2012, from when egg producers are required to provide hens with larger and more comfortable cages, which include nesting and scratching areas that allow more natural behaviour.

When was the enriched colony cage act introduced?

Introduced in the U.S. Congress in July 2012, the proposed legislation, if enacted, will codify the imprisonment of billions of egg-laying hens in battery cages in the form of “enriched” or “enriched colony” cages for decades, even centuries, to come, undermining decades of dedicated effort to get hens Out of Cages.

Is the enriched cage illegal in the EU?

Despite years of sustained campaigning against anyform of cage by all serious animal welfare/rights organisations, the “enriched” version of the battery cage for laying hens is not included in the European Union’s 2012 ban on the barren battery cage. In 2012 the RSPCA launched its new campaign opposing the enriched cage.

Is it illegal to put a hen in an enriched cage?

With built-in obscured areas, admittedly of vital importance to the hen, the prospect of thorough daily inspections of individual birds in “enriched” cages is virtually nil, rendering the whole system illegal per se. As compared with the conventional cage, the “enriched” cage offers no

When was battery cages banned in the UK?

In January 2012 battery cages were banned in the UK. There are now only three higher welfare methods of egg production in the UK: free range, barn and enriched colony cage. The enriched colony was developed to meet an EU directive that came into law in 1999 and replaced all battery cages from January 2012.

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