enow.com Web Search

Search results

1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network

2. Chicken wire - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_wire

   Chicken wire, or poultry netting, is a mesh of wire commonly used to fence in fowl, such as chickens, in a run or coop. It is made of thin, flexible, galvanized steel wire with hexagonal gaps. Available in 1 ⁄ 2 inch (about 1.3 cm), 1 inch (about 2.5 cm) diameter, and 2 inch (about 5 cm), chicken wire is available in various gauges —usually ...

3. Electric fence - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_fence

   Smooth steel wire is the material most often used for electric fences, ranging from a fine thin wire used as a single line to thicker, high-tensile (HT) wire. Less often, woven wire or barbed wire fences can be electrified, though such practices create a more hazardous fence, particularly if an animal becomes caught by the fencing material ...

4. Free range - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_range

   If one allows "free range" to include "herding", free range was a typical husbandry method at least until the development of barbed wire and chicken wire. The generally poor understanding of nutrition and diseases before the twentieth century made it difficult to raise many livestock species without giving them access to a varied diet, and the ...

5. Battery cage - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battery_cage

   Attempts to change the law have been an object of contention; RSPCA Australia has been officially campaigning to abolish both battery cages and furnished cages and to prohibit the sale of cage eggs ever since the 2001 revision of the Poultry Code. [16] The 2009 Code of Practice permits the use of battery cages. A written commitment by the ...

6. News, Politics, Sports, Mail & Latest Headlines - AOL.com

   firefox-startpage.aol.com

   Discover the latest breaking news in the U.S. and around the world — politics, weather, entertainment, lifestyle, finance, sports and much more.

7. Furnished cage - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furnished_cage

   A furnished cage, sometimes called enriched cage, colony cage or modified cage, is a type of cage used in poultry farming for egg laying hens.Furnished cages have been designed to overcome some of the welfare concerns of battery cages (also called 'conventional' or 'traditional cages') whilst retaining their economic and husbandry advantages, and also provide some of the welfare advantages ...