Beak treatment is the physical removal of the top and bottom part of the beak of a bird. It is commonly practised in commercial layer flocks to reduce damage caused by birds to each other later in ...

An outbreak of aggressive feather pecking and cannibalism in a flock of laying hens involved in a government-backed trial could derail plans to ban beak trimming in the UK as of 2016. Twenty flocks ...

I suspect I have an egg-eater in my coop. Lately, my egg production seems to be down from the usual six to about four a day. This alone wasn’t enough to tip me off to a bird with a possible ...

Almost 600,000 laying hens in Lower Saxony have been included in applications for a new initiative to improve bird welfare, including an end to beak-trimming. According to agriculture minister of ...

DEAR JOAN: A hummingbird with quite an interesting beak has been visiting our feeder for several months now. Its beak is obviously damaged, essentially bifurcating; the top diverging from the bottom.