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Proper animal welfare involves providing the proper housing, management, nutrition, disease prevention and treatment, responsible care, humane handling and, when necessary, humane euthanasia. These factors allow for the most optimal and humane growing environment. The concept of animal welfare includes three elements: the bird’s normal biological functioning, its emotional state and its ability to express its natural behaviors. Improving animal welfare can be accomplished through offerings like poultry feed enrichment, which can reduce stress, thereby increasing performance, productivity and profitability. Animal welfare is currently a major requirement for intensive poultry production. Beak trimming, stocking density, free access to feed, heat stress, and air pollutants became important issues, which are regulated in several countries. Animal welfare is observed by watching how birds naturally behave and even by looking at mortality stemming from aggressive behaviors.
Efficacy of using Silvafeed® Nutri P plant extract to improve poultry feet quality and welfare Footpad dermatitis (FPD) has become a major issue for broiler industry in recent years. The development of necrotic lesions on the feet can strongly impair the welfare of poultry. Moreover, it can affect animal productivity and the quality of chicken feet, causing important economic losses (Mayne et al,...
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Introduction During summer, high ambient temperature is one of the most important environmental stressors adversely affecting poultry health [1–2]. Hens to loss heat are limited due to feathering and the absence of sweat glands [1]. A hen can tolerate and adapt to ambient temperatures up to 25°C (77°F); temperatures above this level can lead to heat stress (HS) as a combination of hen’s physical heat production plus the environmental heat load is greater...
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Donald Conner, Head of Poultry Science Department at Auburn University, talked to us about research and projects that are being developed at their facilities, during IPPE 2017 in Atlanta, USA. ...
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Plamen Nikolov, Technical Manager-Stalosan at Vilofoss, talks to us about their product Stalosan and their biosecurity assessment program during Eurotier 2016, in Hannover, Germany....
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Introduction Footpad dermatitis (FPD) is a type of skin inflammation that causes necrotic lesions on the plantar surface of footpads in broilers and turkeys (Shepherd and Fairchild, 2010). Chicken feet or paws are considered a culinary delicacy in many cultures and have become the third most important economic part of the chicken (chicken breast and wings are the first and second,...
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INTRODUCTION Animals must be able to perceive, store, and retrieve information in order to navigate their environment and maximize the ratio of benefits to costs. Birds should have good spatial cognition, allowing them to remember specific routes and landmarks so as to optimally utilize resources such as food, water, perches, and nests. They also need to use their knowledge of routes and landmarks effectively to escape...
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Introduction Following the EU Council Directive ban on conventional ‘battery’ cages (99/74/EC) which came into full effect in January 2012 [1], concerns for the welfare implications of certain rearing and production system combinations have arisen. Previous studies indicate that rearing conditions affect the welfare of birds in the producing stage. Nicol et al. [2] found that previous exposure to wood shavings...
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Effects of Muco-defen® on Clostridium perfringens-induced necrotic enteritis in broilers
Andrew M. Janczak, Associate Professor, Laboratory Head of the Norwegian University of Life Science speaks about the rearing effects on laying hen productivity and welfare....
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Dr. Janice M. Siegford, Research Assistant Professor at Michigan State University speaks about his presentation on laying hen behavior, welfare quality assessments and stress measures. ...
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Introduction Footpad dermatitis (FPD), also called footpad lesions or pododermatitis, is a major welfare concern in broiler chickens. Severe FPD is likely to be painful for the birds, and because of its association with litter quality it also reflects other welfare aspects (Haslam et al. , 2007).Wet litter is the most important factor causing FPD in broiler chickens (Shepherd et al. 2010). It can be...
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A concern over how to feed the rising human population while at the same time minimizing the effect on the environment has led to calls for agriculture to become more ‘sustainably intensive’ and more efficient. (Royal Society, 2009; Steinfeld et al., 2006; Garnett et al., 2013; Gerber et al., 2013). The human population is projected to be at least 9 billion by 2050 (FAOStat, 2009;...
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Animal rights versus animal welfare have been discussed in the previous articles. This article ramifies the implementation of certain laws and regulations being adopted in different countries internationally in specific relation to the Commercial Industry. Purposely, not only encouraging these laws but also working on the possible ways of their grass roots implementations in the developing countries also. The welfare code for slaughtering the commercial animals...
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Broiler lameness is one of the top welfare issues facing the modern broiler industry. Despite the improvements in nutrition, health and genetics over the past decades, too many flocks end up with birds that are partially or completely immobile. Europe has focused more on the welfare aspect of lameness; however, the US industry is taking welfare more seriously as more major retailers, lead by...
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The Poultry CRC is conducting a survey of free range poultry farms across the country. The survey results will underpin the commissioning of rational, evidence-based research projects to address the important scientific and commercial questions pertaining to free range operations. The survey team, led by Dr Mini Singh of The University of Sydney, will consist of researchers from numerous partners including the South Australian R&D Institute (SARDI), the...
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J R Soc Interface. Dec 7, 2012; 9(77): 3436–3443. PMCID: PMC3481599 Published online Sep 5, 2012. doi: 10.1098/rsif.2012.0594 This journal is © 2012 The Royal Society Abstract Currently, assessment of broiler (meat) chicken welfare relies largely on labour-intensive or post-mortem measures of welfare. We here describe a method for continuously and robustly monitoring the welfare of living...
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Dr Lauren Edwards undertook her PhD, titled Human-animal interactions in the laying hen , with support from the first round Australian Poultry CRC (2003-2009) under the supervision of Professors Paul Hemsworth and Grahame Coleman. Now employed as a lecturer in Applied Animal Behaviour and Welfare at Unitec Institute of Technology in New Zealand, Lauren’s research results suggest that the human-animal relationship is very important for laying...
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New Poultry CRC research is aimed at developing a non-invasive test to assess welfare status in birds. The project is led by joint project leaders Drs Tamsyn Crowley and Anthony Keyburn, from Poultry CRC participants, Deakin University and CSIRO, respectively. Anthony and Tamsyn plan to use cutting-edge genetic technology to create a new test, which will exploit the properties of small non-coding ribonucleic acids (RNAs), called microRNAs or...
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Since consumers are becoming more and more interested in animal welfare, there is an increasing concern about how some practices can affect the welfare of chickens and the quality of the finished product due to cramped conditions. I would like to know your opinion about the alternative farming methods like enriched cages, cage-free farming, free range and organic. Look forward to hearing your experiences!!! ...
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The welfare of poultry is a key concern to veterinarians and poultry producers in developed countries of the world. In developing countries where poultry welfare may not currently be a primary concern at present, it likely to become more important in the future as the global trend of increasing awareness of animal welfare develops further. There are many factors which impact on, and influence poultry welfare...
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