Queensland increases free range stocking densities for chickens to 10,000 birds per hectare
The Queensland government has bowed to industry pressure and adopted Coles ‘free range’ definition of 10,000 chickens per hectare. The previous commonly accepted standard that applied under the Domestic Poultry Code (4th edn) was 1,500 birds per hectare. Purported ‘free range’ chickens are thus to be allotted one square metre or the size of your front…