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 ...

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 ...