Instant Insights: Ensuring the Welfare of Broilers

Chapter 1 - Ensuring the welfare of broilers: an overview: T. B. Rodenburg, Wageningen University, The Netherlands;

1 Introduction
2 Genetic selection
3 Stocking density
4 Case study: hatching environment and early feeding
5 Case study: alternative and free range systems
6 Summary: how research can contribute to enhanced and sustainable broiler production
7 Future trends in research
8 Where to look for further information
9 References



Chapter taken from: Applegate, T. (ed.), Achieving sustainable production of poultry meat - Volume 3: Health and welfare, Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing, Cambridge, UK, 2017, (ISBN 978 1 78676 072 2)



Chapter 2 - Poultry health monitoring and management: bone and skin health in broilers: Gina Caplen, University of Bristol, UK;

1 Introduction
2 Leg disorders and lameness
3 Contact dermatitis
4 Conclusion and future trends
5 Where to look for further information
6 References



Chapter taken from: Nicol, C. (ed.), Understanding the behaviour and improving the welfare of chickens, Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing, Cambridge, UK, 2020, (ISBN 978 1 78676 422 5)



Chapter 3 - Welfare issues affecting broiler breeders: Anja Brinch Riber, Aarhus University, Denmark;

1 Introduction
2 Welfare issues in broiler breeders
3 Conclusion and future trends
4 Acknowledgements
5 Where to look for further information
6 References



Chapter taken from: Applegate, T. (ed.), Achieving sustainable production of poultry meat - Volume 3: Health and welfare, Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing, Cambridge, UK, 2017, (ISBN 978 1 78676 072 2)



Chapter 4 - Broiler breeding flocks: management and animal welfare: Ingrid C. de Jong and Rick A. van Emous, Wageningen Livestock Research, The Netherlands;

1 Introduction
2 Housing conditions and management in the rearing period
3 Housing conditions and management in the production period
4 Welfare issues: restricted feeding and water restriction
5 Welfare issues: excisions, mating behaviour and quality of feather cover
6 Environmental enrichment
7 Vaccinations
8 Transgenerational effects
9 Concluding remarks
10 Where to look for further information
11 References



Chapter taken from: Nicol, C. (ed.), Understanding the behaviour and improving the welfare of chickens, Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing, Cambridge, UK, 2020, (ISBN 978 1 78676 422 5)



Chapter 5 - Poultry welfare monitoring: group-level technologies: Marian Stamp Dawkins and Elizabeth Rowe, University of Oxford, UK;

1 Introduction
2 Types of automated assessment
3 Automated measures of welfare as part of precision farming
4 Why isnt automated welfare assessment more widely used?
5 Conclusions
6 Future trends
7 References



Chapter taken from: Nicol, C. (ed.), Understanding the behaviour and improving the welfare of chickens, Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing, Cambridge, UK, 2020, (ISBN 978 1 78676 422 5)