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Occupation: Poultry systems specialist
International poultry systems specialist with expertise in all aspects of poultry systems, equipment and bird welfare. He is an acknowledged world expert in laying cages (both unfurnished and furnished), alternative egg production systems and broiler feeder and drinker design. He acts as project consultant for ADAS and provide specialist advice on housing systems and EC legislation. He has close contacts with both research and commercial farms with alternative housing systems for laying hens (including enriched cages), both in the UK and abroad.
Location: Nottingham, United Kingdom
Arnold Elson likes the comment:
There is an awful lot of misunderstanding across the world on biosecurity. Especially what products to use and how to use them. This includes the application. I have been spending a lot of time recently educating on effective biosecurity and exploding some of the myths talked about programmes and products. As the great Joseph Lister quoted "The germ is nothing. The circumstances are everything". B ...
Article published the July 23, 2014
IntroductionPoultry welfare is known to be influenced by housing system and management (Elson, 2010) but some aspects of it can be positive and others negative even within the same system. For example, as shown by Elson (2008), extensive free-range pasture based systems allow poultry freedom to express a wider behavioural repertoire (positive) than intensive indoor ones but expose them to greater ...
This member gave a presentation on June 25, 2014
At the following event:
European Poultry Conference 2014
This member had joined Engormix
June 5, 2014