Beak trimming – the partial removal of the tip of the beak – is sometimes referred to as ‘debeaking’, however at no time is the entire beak re...
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...
Growth hormones are not fed to meat chickens in Australia. Meat chickens have been selectively bred over many years, to have an increased growth rate ...
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‘s detailed animal welfare Standard for Meat Chickens goes beyond legal requirements in Australia. The Standard provides producers with a t...
Cage-free labelling on eggs can include barn-laid or free-range farming systems. Barn-laid eggs come from hens that are able to move about in large sh...
Cage eggs come from layer hens confined in battery cages. Each hen has less space than an A4 sheet of paper and spends her life standing on bare wire ...
The RSPCA Approved Farming Scheme Standard for Layer Hens has 138 requirements for when hens are on farm, including giving hens more space to move, st...
There are no legal requirements for regular monitoring of farms, and the law does not go far enough to ensure good animal welfare. Many labelling term...
In the absence of better legal requirements for Australia’s most intensively farmed animals, the RSPCA Approved Farming Scheme was developed as a so...
The RSPCA Approved Farming Scheme standards are developed and reviewed by RSPCA Australia’s science team. The standards are informed by animal welfa...
The RSPCA’s Approved Farming Scheme standards go beyond legal requirements. See what the RSPCA’s animal welfare standards mean for each animal, an...
