Our Industry-Leading Commitments to Animal Care Program
Our Commitments to Animal Care program is focused on letting a chicken be a chicken. This means providing chickens the space, activities and enrichment they want to create an environment where they are safe and well cared for.
Animal Care Legacy: “It’s The Right Thing To Do”
Our Position on Animal Care and Welfare
At Perdue Farms, our vision is “to be the most trusted name in food and agricultural products®”. That trust extends to our animal care and welfare commitments, and we embrace our responsibility to ensure animals are treated with dignity and respect. In fact, animal welfare is an important part of our company value of stewardship.
Our 2025 Animal Care Report
Learn about the progress we are making in our Commitments to Animal Care.
Our Record on Animal Welfare
When it comes to animal care, we strive to not only meet but exceed industry standards. Our farms maintain the highest level of certification for animal care, which reflects our unwavering commitment to protecting the health and safety of our birds. Furthermore, we are committed to complete transparency and regularly submit to independent, third-party audits to demonstrate our industry leading animal welfare policies and practices. Our record speaks for itself:
No Cages or Crates
No Antibiotics Ever
No Drugs for Growth Performance
Freedom to Express Normal Behavior
All-Vegetarian Diet with No Animal By-Products
Audited and Verified
Our Progress
We are constantly evaluating our programs and policies to ensure that we are continuously improving animal welfare. This means:
Increasing enrichment activities: Perdue is funding research and updating chicken houses to explore the impact of elevated enrichments on birds in poultry houses.
Building strong farmer relationships: Maintaining strong, open relationships with the farmers who care for our chickens allows us to understand and address their challenges.
Feeding animals a well-balanced, quality diet: Our animals are raised on a diet free from antibiotics and drugs and are fed all vegetarian feed without any animal by-products.
Our Animal Care Culture in Action
For us, animal welfare is a journey of continuous improvement, and we are dedicated to consistently raising the bar by learning, listening and responding.
Farmer Communications
Exploring More Space with Enrichments
9th Annual Animal Care Summit Highlights
Opening the Farm for Future Farmers
Litter Assessment
Company Stewardship Report
Learn about the steps we're taking to reach our goal of becoming the most trusted name in food and agricultural products.