Cage-free keeping of chickens in Poland is not as widespread as in the EU as a whole

In 2024, 39.7% of chickens in the European Union are kept in cage systems. Most of the livestock - 60.3%, or 234.9 million heads - are kept in alternative systems. Juliusz Jatczak, owner of the veterinary clinic, doctor of veterinary medicine of the poultry farm "Wozniak" (Poland) told about this in an interview with the magazine "Our Poultry Farming". "This is the result of quite intense changes that have taken place in recent years," he said. ‒ Because back in 2010, 65.5% of laying hens in the EU were kept in cages. According to Juliusz Jatczak, Poland is currently the second country in Europe (after Germany) in terms of the number of birds. The flock of laying hens in Poland has 51 million heads. "At the same time, about 76.2% of chickens in the country are still raised in cages," he noted. ‒ However, the trends are such that more and more farms are repurposing production to cage-free poultry keeping." The share of cage-free production in Poland in 2021 was 19%, and already in ...