Indigenous and local breeds still contribute meaningfully to poultry meat and egg production and consumption in developing countries, where they …
The efficiency and profitability of family enterprises using indigenous poultry are limited by disease, production constraints, and external factors. The …
Village poultry make a significant contribution to poverty alleviation and household food security in many developing countries. This contribution by …
In the context of the European Union ban on battery cages by 2012, a survey was conducted among Flemish egg producers (60% response rate, 140 completed questionnaires) about the introduction and opinion of alternative housing systems. Belgium appears to be among the countries in the European Union that are slower to adopt alternative housing. Belgium’s …
Despite the large number of studies examining the impact of cage systems on Ca and P nutrition,data are limited on …
Conventional cage housing for laying hens evolved as a cost-effective egg production system. Complying with mandated hen housing alternatives would raise marginal production costs and require sizable capital investment. California data indicate that shifts from conventional cages to barn housing would likely cause farm-level cost increases of about 40% per dozen. The US data on …
By investigating the prevalence and antimicrobial resistance characteristics of Gram-positive bacteria from organic and conventional keeping systems of laying hens, …
Organic livestock production is a means of food production with a large number of rules directed towards a high status …
From 2012 onwards, housing of laying hens in conventional battery cages will be forbidden in the European Union and only …
1. The welfare of hens in 26 flocks (6 conventional cage, 6 furnished cage, 7 barn, 7 free range) was assessed throughout the laying period using a combination of data on physical health, physiology and injurious pecking, collected by researchers on farm and during post-mortem analysis, and information submitted by producers. 2. There was an …
1. Feather pecking is one of the major problems facing the egg industry in non-cage systems and is set to become even more of an issue with the European Union ban on the keeping of laying hens in barren battery cages which comes into force in 2012 and the prospect of a ban on beaktrimming. …
Ergosterol (ERG) content, being an indicator of fungal biomass, was analyzed in samples of eggshell, egg white, and egg yolk …
A move from conventional cages to either an enriched cage or a noncage system may affect the safety or quality, …
This paper examines the challenges that climate change raises for animal agriculture and discusses the contributions that may come from …
Organic agriculture addresses the public demand to diminish environmental pollution of agricultural production. Until now, however, only few studies tried …