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Orange Code:47614
Paperback:446 pages
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1. The importance of welfare2. Hen welfare: the consumers’ perspective3. Government views on the welfare of laying hens4. The politics of hen welfare5. Impact of the World Trade Organization on hen welfare6. The food retailer–consumer relationship, with particular reference to animal welfare7. Quality assurance8. The producer and hen welfare9. The laying hen: systems of egg production10. Stress and the welfare of laying hens11. Genetic influences on resource use, fear and sociality12. The genetics of feather pecking and cannibalism13. Breeding for productivity and welfare of laying hens14. Sensory perception: chemoreception15. Vision in the laying hen16. Pain and the laying hen17. Chicken cognition18. Social space for laying hens19. Nesting, perching and dustbathing20. Environmental enrichment: the need for practical strategies to improve poultry welfare21. Feather pecking and feather loss22. Cannibalism23. Skeletal disorders in laying hens: the problem of osteoporosis and bone fractures24. Disease control25. Environmental management for laying hens26. Lighting27. Nutrition, feedstuffs and feeding28. Human–animal interactions29. Handling and catching of hens during depopulation30. Transport of chicks, pullets and spent hens31. Stunning and slaughter
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The welfare of egg-producing poultry is a topic of great concern to the poultry industry and to researchers in applied animal behavior. 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, behavior, health and diseases, stockmanship and the environment, handling, slaughter and transport, and perspectives of consumers and producers.
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