In Australia, meat chickens are not kept in cages. Most are raised in large, environmentally-controlled sheds and some also have daytime access to the...
Antibiotics are a medication that are used to treat and control infections caused by bacteria. Antibiotics have been routinely used, particularly in i...
The RSPCA Approved standards allow the use of antibiotics to treat disease. As suffering from disease is a poor welfare outcome, it is important to tr...
Meat chickens reared on farms by Producers with RSPCA Approved certification are provided with enriched environments that mean they can perch, scratch...
Our standards set a higher level for animal welfare by aiming to provide some of Australia’s most intensively farmed animals with a better quality o...
You can see what happens on the farms we certify, here....
Producers who have RSPCA Approved certification have farms and abattoirs that are regularly assessed by an RSPCA Assessor to check that they are meeti...