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 …
Birds dissipate considerable heat through respiratory-evaporative and cutaneous-evaporative mechanisms and sensible heat loss (SHL) via radiation, convection, and conduction. The significance of SHL in laying hens is still to be confirmed. This study aimed to elucidate the effect of ventilation on egg production and quality during exposure to high ambient temperature. Lohman laying hens were …
Rising affluence in major developing countries (principally China and India) and increasing diversion of agricultural resources for energy production (USA …
Changes in both farm production and food transport have resulted in the imposition of new levels of environmental costs. This …
Human society is on a collision course with nature, thus its sustainability is seriously questioned nowadays. To understand this problem …
The global poultry sector is divided into a large-scale commercial sub-sector dominated by international, vertically integrated companies, and a small-scale …
The paper addresses the new competition for land arising from growing and changing demand for food when combined with increasing …
This study was aimed to evaluate the effect of force molting programs on egg production and quality oflaying hens. Total of 165 white Bovines laying hens at 72 weeks of age were divided into four groups. Birds in-group 1 (control), birds in group 2, 3 and 4 were fasted for 10, 12 and 15 days, …
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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 …
1. The objectives of the present study were to validate a reduced, non-intrusive version (RLS) of the LayWel plumage scoring system in domestic laying hens with reference to complete, intrusive scoring (CLS) and to investigate the effect of these two scoring methods on corticosterone metabolite concentrations. 2. A total of 312 medium-heavy laying hens from …
Feather pecking and cannibalism in chickens can lead to injury or to death of the victims, and is thus a serious welfare and economic issue in modern poultry farming. A sib selection scheme has been initiated to genetically select a low mortality line (LML), which shows decreased mortality due to cannibalism compared to a control …
Environmental life cycle assessment (LCA) has developed fast over the last three decades. Whereas LCA developed from merely energy analysis …
This paper reviews estimates of food related greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions at the global, regional and national levels, highlighting both …
Despite the large number of studies examining the impact of cage systems on Ca and P nutrition,data are limited on …
The global pattern of expanding urban centers and increasing agricultural intensity is leading to more frequent interactions between air pollution …