Document type: article from the Poultry World website
Author: Tony McDougal
Preview: Poultry industry adapts to changes around beak trimming
Moves to outlaw beak trimming in parts of Western Europe have prompted the poultry industry to respond with a range of developments.
Beak trimming has been outlawed in Scandinavian countries for many years (Norway 1974, Finland 1986, Sweden 1988) and Demark and Austria in 2013. More recently, the practice has been banned in the Netherlands and in some sectors of the German poultry industry. Other countries are likely to follow suit. In the UK, the Government has threatened to introduce a ban. This has prompted the Laying Hen Welfare Forum (LHWF) to trial different management interventions on 29 flocks to find the most effective ways of keeping feather cover in top condition.
