Hi Vasco, my sense is that moving from cages (even if furnished)to cage-free aviaries is an improvement, for the reasons I mentioned in my earlier response. Right now, with the evidence gaps there are, it’s very hard though to make a reliable distinction between 10th percentiles.
There are confounding issues with the term “cage free” since some folks frankly cheap out and actually introduce novel downsides that don’t usually exist with typical caged setups… which means it needs to be very precisely defined and checked on the ground.
Hi Vasco, my sense is that moving from cages (even if furnished)to cage-free aviaries is an improvement, for the reasons I mentioned in my earlier response. Right now, with the evidence gaps there are, it’s very hard though to make a reliable distinction between 10th percentiles.
There are confounding issues with the term “cage free” since some folks frankly cheap out and actually introduce novel downsides that don’t usually exist with typical caged setups… which means it needs to be very precisely defined and checked on the ground.