Ruud Zanders – IEC London 2011
Marketing Session Presentation – “New Concepts in Egg Production – Working to Consumer Demands”
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Marketing Session Presentation – “New Concepts in Egg Production – Working to Consumer Demands”
Marketing Session Presentation – “How to Serve Retailers in the Future”
Production & Trade Session Presentation – “Competition for Land Use Between Different Production Alternatives”
Production & Trade Session Presentation – “Preliminary Life-Cycle Assessment of Laying Hens”
Production & Trade Session Presentation – “Life Cycle Assessment on Egg Production”
EPI Session Presentation – “Crisis Management – SE in the USA”
EPI Session Presentation – “Crisis Management – SE in the USA”
EPI Session Presentation – “In & Out of Shell Safety Issues, Performance & Return on Investment”
EPI Session Presentation – “Latest Developments in Egg Breaking Technologies”
Economics Session Presentation – “The Role of Less Developed and Threshold Countries in Global Egg Production and Trade”
Economics Session Presentation – “US Egg Industry – All Change?”
Economics Session Presentation – “Approaching the EU Ban on Conventional Cages”
The Welfare Quality® project has developed an operational definition of farm animal welfare, which consists of 12 criteria grouped into four principles (‘good feeding’, ‘good housing’, ‘good health’ and ‘appropriate behaviour’). As part of a larger survey, 204 farmers, 72 vegetarians, and a representative sample of 459 adult citizens in Flanders (Belgium) scored the importance …
On-farm welfare assessment has been used mainly for non-regulatory purposes such as producer education or to qualify for voluntary welfare-assurance programs. The application of on-farm assessments in regulatory programs would require four issues to be addressed: (1) selecting criteria that arewidely accepted as valid by diverse citizens, (2) setting minimum legal levels, (3) achieving the …
Egg production systems have become subject to heightened levels of scrutiny. Multiple factors such as disease, skeletal and foot health, pest and parasite load, behavior, stress, affective states, nutrition, and genetics influence the level of welfare hens experience. Although the need to evaluate the influence of these factors on welfare is recognized, research is still …
Awareness of farm animal welfare issues is growing in Canada, as part of a larger food movement. The baseline Canadian standards for farm animal welfare – the Recommended Codes of Practice for the Care and Handling of Farm Animals – are up for revision. The success of these standards will depend in part on perceived legitimacy, which …
Prior to slaughter, most farmed birds move through a constant-voltage, multiple-bird, electrical water-bath stun system. Using this system subjects live …
In spite of the large amounts of money invested in research, breeding, and the improvement of commercial egg-type strains, high …