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RSPCA welfare standards for laying hens and pullets 2025

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The document outlines the RSPCA welfare standards for laying hens and pullets, detailing guidelines for their rearing, handling, transport, and slaughter. It emphasizes the importance of providing adequate food, water, and a suitable environment to ensure the health and welfare of the birds. The standards are based on scientific research and best practices in animal husbandry, focusing on the 'Five Freedoms' which include freedom from hunger, discomfort, pain, fear, and the ability to express normal behavior. Additionally, it includes supplementary standards for pullets and specific management practices to enhance animal welfare.

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What are the RSPCA assured standards for laying hens?

The RSPCAs standards for egg-laying hens do not allow birds to be kept in cages ever. Birds may only be kept on free-range farms or in large barns where they are free to roam around and better able to perform natural behaviours like nesting, perching and dust bathing.

What are the welfare issues of laying hens?

Nearly all welfare issues for hens result from a life spent in a battery cage. Due to the wire mesh base, hens cannot perform basic actions like dustbathing a natural behavior that helps remove excess oils or parasites and cleans the hens feathers.

What is the animal welfare for laying hens?

Laying hen housing systems must provide feed, water, light, air quality, space and sanitation that promote good health and welfare for the hens. Housing systems should provide for expression of important natural behaviors, protect the hens from disease, injury and predation, and promote food safety.

What are the conditions for Rspca approved chickens?

Chickens on RSPCA Approved farms are encouraged to be active. They have good lighting, perches, dry litter floor covering and space to move around. Whether raised indoors or with access to the outdoors, theres a focus on providing for meat chickens behavioural and physical needs.

Is RSPCA approved chicken good?

RSPCA Approved farming isnt just good for the animals, its good for the farmers too. Since becoming RSPCA Approved, the Mackenzies now have improved methods of monitoring and managing the feed, water and comfort of their chickens.

What are the welfare standards for chickens?

Birds must be free from unnecessary hunger, thirst and malnutrition by being provided a wholesome diet and continuous access (until the start of catching) to fresh water to maintain their full health, prevent hunger, thirst, and malnutrition, and promote a positive state of well-being.

What are the RSPCA standards?

The RSPCA standards exist solely to improve farm animal welfare. They are detailed and focus on providing good housing conditions for animals (whether indoor, outdoor or in a combination of both). Crucially, they also provide opportunities for animals to express behaviours that come naturally to them.

RSPCA welfare standards for laying hens and pullets 2025

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