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 ...

Compassion in World Farming has condemned a government advisory body for recommending a delay to the 2011 ban on beak trimming for layers. In a recent letter to DEFRA minister Jim Fitzpatrick, the ...

The government will not ban the controversial trimming of hens’ beaks despite criticism from animal welfare campaigners. Farming minister George Eustice said this week he fully accepted the ...

More than three years after a poacher shot off her upper beak, a bald eagle named Beauty can finally live up to her name — with the help of volunteers. A team attached an artificial beak to the ...

Farm minister George Eustice has decided not to implement a ban on beak trimming next year, but has called for improved management techniques to reduce feather pecking. In answer to a written question ...

Rescuer Mandy Kocevar, 45, told Newsweek that Winnie's "previous owner's health was the main cause contributing to the ...

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 ...

Millions of hens will have their beaks mutilated; game birds will remain in cages; pigs, sheep and cows in abattoirs will lose crucial protection from abuse; badgers will be culled and lions, tigers ...