Instant Insights: Ensuring the welfare of laying hens (eBook)

Victoria Sandilands, Dana L. M. Campbell, Sarah L. Lambton, Isabelle Ruhnke, Claire A. Weeks, Dorothy McKeegan, Christina Rufener, Michael J. Toscano, Heng-Wei Cheng, Sha Jiang (Autoren)

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2023
212 Seiten
Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-80146-628-8 (ISBN)

Infos

This collection provides a comprehensive overview of the key welfare issues affecting laying hens, as well as the measures and practices which can be put in place to prevent their occurrence. Chapters review the range of welfare issues affecting laying hens in conventional cages, enriched cages and free range environments.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 18.7.2023
• Reihe/Serie: Burleigh Dodds Science: Instant Insights
• Zusatzinfo: Color tables, photos and figures
• Verlagsort: Cambridge
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Schlagworte: artificial selection • Behaviour • behavioural expression • Bone Health • chicken aggression • chicken cannibalism • direct genetic effects (DGE) • feather pecking • Fracture • free-range laying hen systems • indirect genetic effects (IGE) • infrared beak trimming • keel bone • layer hens • laying hen health • laying hen nutrition • laying hen pathogens • multi-level selection • Multi-Tier • multi-trait selection • Natural selection • non-cage systems • Nutrition • outdoor range use • parasite load • welfare
• ISBN-10: 1-80146-628-9 / 1801466289
• ISBN-13: 978-1-80146-628-8 / 9781801466288