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 โfree-rangeโ eggs have attracted public interest. This book brings together edited papers from the 27th Poultry Science Symposium of the Worldโs 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 1 The importance of welfare
Part I: The Stakeholders
Chapter 2 Hen welfare: consumersโ 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 retailerโconsumer relationship, with particular reference to animal welfare
Chapter 7 Quality assurance
Chapter 8 The producer and hen welfare
Part II: Overviews
Chapter 9 The laying hen: systems of egg production
Chapter 10 Stress and the welfare of laying hens
Part III: Welfare Issues
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 22 Cannibalism
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 26 Lighting
Chapter 27 Nutrition, feedstuffs and feeding
Chapter 28 Humanโanimal interactions
Chapter 29 Handling and catching of hens during depopulation
Chapter 30 Transport of chicks, pullets and spent hens
Chapter 31 Stunning and slaughter
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