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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.
Minister for Primary Industries Ian Macdonald, said changes have been made to rules governing the size of layer hen cages to enhance the welfare of layer hens in NSW. Mr Macdonald said the amendments were made to regulations under the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act 1979 (POCTA). "These changes will improve the welfare of poultry kept for egg production and ensure the industry remains both profitable and productive," he said. "They have been...
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Research into the welfare of commercial broiler chickens in New Zealand has found that welfare standards are equal or superior to that of broilers kept elsewhere.
The aim of the research was to identify appropriate welfare indicators for broilers and then apply them to quantify the welfare status of New Zealand commercial broiler flocks.
“We wanted to be confident that the standards of welfare specified in codes and practised on New Zealand farms were acceptable. It was found that New...
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BPC welcomes the proposal to fix common standards for chicken welfare across the whole EU. The proposal will pull together several existing welfare rules for chickens and elaborate new detailed requirements in a single Directive. However, we would like it to be applied to all chicken placed on the market not just to chicken reared in the EU.
The proposal still needs some fine tuning but in general we support the Commission's recognition that good welfare is determined more by the standards...
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The Commission has adopted a proposal for a Directive on the protection of chickens kept for meat production (broilers). Scientific studies have revealed serious health and welfare shortcomings in the intensive farming of chickens.
The legislation came as a response to the long-standing appeal of Member States and citizens for the Commission to take action in this area.
Markos Kyprianou, Commissioner for Health and Consumer Protection said: “Animal welfare is not just about ethics, it is...
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The 2005 U.S. Poultry & Egg Association's Poultry Processor Workshop will be held May 18-19 at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in Atlanta.
The focus of the workshop is to keep management up to date on key issues and latest developments that impact their plants.
Topics will include poultry processing . . . back to basics, microbial performance standards, Hazard Analysis & Critical Control Points/Sanitation Standard Operating Plans, food and facility security and animal welfare.
"Modern...
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Egg farmers will be allowed to continue using the battery hen system, says Agriculture Minister Jim Sutton.
Mr Sutton today released two new codes of animal welfare for controversial species, farmed pigs and layer hens, which contain few concessions to a vocal lobby of animal welfare activists.
He said egg farmers could continue putting their hens in battery cages. Caged hens produce 92 per cent of the country's eggs.
"The science on layer hen systems is unclear," Mr Sutton said in...
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