Animal Welfare Issues in the Poultry Industry: Is There a Lesson to Be Learned?
Titel:
Animal Welfare Issues in the Poultry Industry: Is There a Lesson to Be Learned?
Auteur:
Duncan, Ian J. H.
Verschenen in:
Journal of applied animal welfare science
Paginering:
Jaargang 4 (2001) nr. 3 pagina's 207-221
Jaar:
2001-07-01
Inhoud:
Many of the conditions in which poultry live and the procedures to which they are subjected compromise their welfare. This article describes these welfare problems in the hope that they may serve as warnings to the rest of animal agriculture, which then might take steps to avoid the same pitfalls. The article discusses poultry welfare problems under the headings of battery cages for laying hens, forced molting, disposal of spent laying hens, fast growth problems in meat poultry, catching and transportation, food restriction of broiler breeders, hyperaggressiveness in broiler breeder males, elective surgeries, and water-bath stunning.
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