Description
The welfare of egg-producing poultry is a topic of great concern to the poultry industry and to researchers in applied animal behaviour. It is also subject to increased legislation. Issues such as battery cages, space requirements, access to daylight and “free-range” eggs have attracted public interest. This book brings together edited papers from the 27th Poultry Science Symposium of the World’s Poultry Science Association (UK Branch), held in Bristol in July 2003. Topics covered include: welfare issues, perception and cognition, behaviour, health and diseases, stockmanship and the environment, handling, slaughter and transport, and perspectives of consumers and producers.
Chapter
CHAPTER 2 Hen welfare: the consumers’ perspective
CHAPTER 3 Government views on the welfare of laying hens
CHAPTER 4 The politics of hen welfare
CHAPTER 5 Impact of the World Trade Organization on hen welfare
CHAPTER 6 The food retailer–consumer relationship, with particular reference to animal welfare
CHAPTER 7 Quality assurance
CHAPTER 8 The producer and hen welfare
CHAPTER 9 The laying hen: systems of egg production
CHAPTER 10 Stress and the welfare of laying hens
CHAPTER 11 Genetic influences on resource use, fear and sociality
CHAPTER 12 The genetics of feather pecking and cannibalism
CHAPTER 13 Breeding for productivity and welfare of laying hens
CHAPTER 14 Sensory perception: chemoreception
CHAPTER 15 Vision in the laying hen
CHAPTER 16 Pain and the laying hen
CHAPTER 17 Chicken cognition
CHAPTER 18 Social space for laying hens
CHAPTER 19 Nesting, perching and dustbathing
CHAPTER 20 Environmental enrichment: the need for practical strategies to improve poultry welfare
CHAPTER 21 Feather pecking and feather loss
CHAPTER 23 Skeletal disorders in laying hens: the problem of osteoporosis and bone fractures
CHAPTER 24 Disease control
CHAPTER 25 Environmental management for laying hens
CHAPTER 27 Nutrition, feedstuffs and feeding
CHAPTER 28 Human–animal interactions
CHAPTER 29 Handling and catching of hens during depopulation
CHAPTER 30 Transport of chicks, pullets and spent hens
CHAPTER 31 Stunning and slaughter
POSTER 1 Sustainable development of egg production systems: it’s not only welfare that counts
POSTER 2 Laying hens in enriched cages: economic experience in Germany
POSTER 3 Non-invasive monitoring of stress in the laying hen: a vocalization analysis approach
POSTER 4 Studies of fear and stress-related traits in Spanish breeds of chicken
POSTER 5 Control of landing flight in laying hens: what are the effects of domestication?
POSTER 6 Applying fractal analysis to laying hen behaviour
POSTER 7 Developing a computer vision system for the online quantification of the behaviour of laying hens in furnished cages
POSTER 8 How do laying hens employ their whole day?
POSTER 9 Aggressive activity in red jungle fowl (Gallus gallus) and White Leghorn layers after re-grouping
POSTER 10 Use of vibration sensors in egg production and behaviour study in laying hens
POSTER 11 Measurement of nest-use time in laying hens, using occupation sensors
POSTER 12 Preference for Astroturf over conventional wire as a dustbathing substrate in furnished cages
POSTER 13 Comparison of artificial turf and a wire mesh floor in nestboxes of enriched cages
POSTER 14 The pre-laying behaviour of laying hens on different nesting materials
POSTER 15 Behaviour of pen-housed hens in relation to floor space allowance
POSTER 16 Effects of opaque and transparent vertical cover on the distribution of hens in an outdoor arena
POSTER 17 Carcass condemnations of laying hens not affected by low feed energy or protein content
POSTER 18 The effect of light programmes on red mite (Dermanyssus gallinae) in battery cage housing
POSTER 19 A radiographic and physiological appraisal of keel bone fractures in laying hens reared with perches
POSTER 20 The performance and behaviour of nonbeak- trimmed hens on a farm producing organic eggs
Welfare of the Laying Hen
( Poultry Science Symposium Series. 27 )
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