Animal category: Poultry

Review: Precision Livestock Farming technologies in pasture-based livestock systems

C. Aquilani, A. Confessore, R. Bozzi, F. Sirtori, C. Pugliese

Published in 2021

Scientific review of the various precision farming systems that can be used to manage the needs, health and monitoring of grazing livestock, allowing any threat to care plans or welfare to be quickly remedied.

Document Types: Scientific review

Animal categories: Bovines, Caprines, Ovines, Porcines, Poultry

Keywords:Animal-based measurements, Precision farming, Livestock farming system

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Heat stress in laying hens: impact and prevention

Jerson Andrés Cuéllar Sáenz

Published in 2021

Technical paper discussing the importance of heat stress in poultry farming, its impact on laying hens, and strategies to combat heat stress.

Document types: Technical Paper

Animal categories: Poultry

Keywords:Stress, Livestock farming system

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Qualitative behaviour assessment as part of a welfare assessment in flocks of laying hens

Guro Vasdal, Karianne Muri, Solveig Marie Stubsjøen, Randi Oppermann Moe, Kathe Kittelsen

Published in 2021

Scientific paper on tests to ascertain the suitability of QBA to assess the emotional state of laying hens. Using QBA, 3 main dimensions were found to explain more than 80% of variations in emotional state - mood, alertness and arousal.

Document Types: Scientific paper

Animal categories: Poultry

Keywords:Animal-based measurements, Brain integration, Stress

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Décret n° 2021-1647 du 14 décembre 2021 précisant les modalités d’application de l’article L. 214-11 du code rural et de la pêche maritime portant interdiction de la mise en production de tout bâtiment nouveau ou réaménagé d’élevage de poules pondeuses élevées en cages

Jean Castex, Julien Denormandie

Published in 2021

Decree clarifying the definition of what constitutes a new or refurbished building, which effectively limits the ban on the keeping of hens in cages to buildings where production capacity is increased. 

Document types: Regulation/Certification

Animal categories: Poultry

Keywords:Societal issues, Housing

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Final report of an audit of France from 25 January 2021 to 5 February 2021 in order to evaluate controls of animal welfare at slaughter and during related operations

DG SANTE

Published in 2021

DG SANTE audit report carried out in France in early 2021, revealing that the effectiveness of official controls in French abattoirs has been significantly improved, as the result of the strengthening of operators' self-monitoring and inspectors' training in particular, but identifying 3 previous recommendations not yet taken into account, and adding two new ones.

Document types: Regulation/Certification

Animal categories: Bovines, Caprines, Equines, Ovines, Porcines, Poultry

Keywords:Consciousness, Carcass quality, Pain, Societal issues, Welfare indicators, Stress

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From human-animal relation practice research to the development of the livestock farmer's activity: an ergonomics-applied ethology interaction

J. Beaujouan, D. Cromer, X. Boivin

Published in 2021

Scientific review on the benefits of combining ergonomics with applied ethology to study the links between animal welfare and the welfare of the livestock farmer. It proposes a new way of looking at the human-animal relationship in animal husbandry taking core concepts from both disciplines.

Document Types: Scientific review

Animal categories: Bovines, Caprines, Ovines, Porcines, Poultry

Keywords: Welfare indicators, Human-animal relationships, Stress, Livestock farming system

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Heat Stress Responses in Birds: A Review of the Neural Components

Mark W. Bohler, Vishwajit S. Chowdhury, Mark A. Cline, Elizabeth R. Gilbert

Published in 2021

A scientific review of the neural circuitry of the avian hypothalamus associated with thermoregulation, food intake and stress response and how these systems may interact during heat exposure.

Document Types: Scientific review

Animal categories:Birds (excluding poultry), Poultry

Keywords: Brain integration, Stress

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Perches as Cooling Devices for Reducing Heat Stress in Caged Laying Hens: A Review

Jiaying Hu, Yijie Xiong, Richard S. Gates, Heng-Wei Cheng

Published in 2021

Scientific review presenting the results of a multi-year study on the capacity of perches containing a cooling circuit to reduce heat stress in laying hens. It demonstrates the effectiveness of this cooling system when combined with an enrichment element in reducing body heat and heat stress in laying hens.

Document Types: Scientific review

Animal categories: Poultry

Keywords:Enrichment, Housing, Livestock farming system

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L’agriculture bio garantit-elle un meilleur « bien-être » des animaux d’élevage ?

Eugénie Duval, Benjamin Lecorps

Published in 2021

Article demonstrating that the French organic label guarantees higher animal welfare standards than conventional farming, providing access to outdoors, banning cage rearing and tethered systems, allowing only exceptional authorisation of non-medical surgical interventions, and requiring more frequent checks and compulsory stunning before slaughter. However, the legislation on transport and slaughter is still inadequate, even in the case of organic farming.

Document Types: Scientific review

Animal categories: Bovines, Caprines, Ovines, Porcines, Poultry

Keywords: Housing, Living environment, Mutilation, Livestock farming system, Transport,Societal issues

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In pursuit of a better broiler: growth, efficiency, and mortality of 16 strains of broiler chickens

Stephanie Torrey, Mohsen Mohammadigheisar, Midian Nascimento dos Santos, Daniel Rothschild, Lauren C. Dawson, Zhenzhen Liu, Elijah G. Kiarie, A. Michelle Edwards, Ira Mandell, Niel Karrow, Dan Tulpan, Tina M. Widowski

Published in 2021

Scientific paper comparing the production indicators of several strains of broilers, with a view to finding strains with sufficient growth to be profitable and presenting fewer risks to animal welfare than do fast-growing conventional strains.

Document Types: Scientific paper

Animal categories: Poultry

Keywords:Adaptation of the animal to the environment, Societal issues, Carcass quality, Livestock farming system

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