#Animal Welfare

Calicos are almost always female, so a male kitten in a Kumamoto rescue trap surprised the vet. Fearing resale, the group kept him. The orange gene was pinned down in 2025; "one in 30,000" has no cited source.

A Japanese team tracked 563 metabolites and 107 tasters to show how hen housing changes egg flavour, in a country where 96.6 percent of laying hens are still caged and cage-free eggs cost about twice as much.