Health and Welfare in Dutch Organic Laying Hens
From 2007–2008, data on animal health and welfare and farm management during rearing and laying periods were collected from 49 flocks of organic laying hens in the Netherlands. Our aim was to investigate how organic egg farms performed in terms of animal health and welfare and which farm factors affected this performance. The flocks in our study were kept on farms with 34 to 25,000 hens (average 9,300 hens). Seventy-one percent of the flocks consisted of ‘silver hybrids’: white hens that lay brown eggs. Fifty-five percent of the flocks were kept in floor-based housing and 45% of the flocks in... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Text |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2014 |
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Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
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Schlagwörter: | organic / free range / poultry health / poultry welfare / feather pecking / vent pecking / mortality / keel bone deformations / foot sole lesions / comb color |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-26636470 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | https://doi.org/10.3390/ani4020374 |