Thursday 23rd February 2012
Tuesday 15th March 2011 10:53
Chicken empathy from Ruben Martinez on Vimeo.
The discovery that hens have feelings could affect the future of commercial chicken farming in the UK. But not all farmers agree that it would actually make a difference.
Researchers at Bristol University believe that chickens kept in intensive and overcrowded conditions know when other birds are distressed.
Lucy Bickerton reports.