Poultry Welfare Technical Articles
Article published the June 16, 2021:
Poor leg health in Australian fast growing meat chickens is a major welfare issue, resultant from long-term genetic selection for bird size and growth rate (Bessei 2006). Anecdotal evidence and preliminary data...
Article published the June 8, 2021:
Introduction
The challenge of the contemporary production of agricultural products is intrinsically linked to optimizing processes and production costs. Ensuring thermal comfort, considering that the intense i...
Article published the June 4, 2021:
Rapidly growing birds may consume up to twice as much water as feed (Scantling and Watkins 2013), which means a plentiful supply of clean water is crucial for poultry health and productivity. To deter...
Article published the May 18, 2021:
I. INTRODUCTION
HB trimming is still used worldwide for retrimming birds on farm where required to reduce the risk of or control serious outbreaks of cannibalism and feather pecking. In the review by Glatz (20...
Article published the May 13, 2021:
Importance of air quality control in poultry farms
Air quality control in poultry production is key to maintain animal welfare, which is closely related to productivity and absence of diseases. When the air ...
Article published the May 13, 2021:
Damaging pecking, or injurious pecking, is a major animal welfare concern. There are various forms of injurious pecking, including injurious feather pecking, feather picking, cannibalism, and aggressive pecki...
Article published the May 11, 2021:
The demand for poultry products continues to rise and, since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, so has the popularity of backyard poultry flocks. With the current mandates for social distancing and isola...
Article published the May 10, 2021:
Ensuring welfare of birds at the farm is key to maintaining a healthy supply of eggs and chicken during the pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant impact on various industries, including the po...
Article published the May 10, 2021:
Modifications to broiler chicken housing to improve animal welfare
Conventional housing of broiler chickens raises concern for their welfare. High stocking densities and barren environments have the potentia...
Article published the May 7, 2021:
1. Introduction
The welfare of laying hens has been the subject of interest in consumers, industry, and the government in Chile. The current main egg production system in Chile is the intensive cage system [1]...