This book brings together edited papers from the 27th Poultry Science Symposium of the World's Poultry Science Association (UK Branch), held in Bristol in July 2003. Topics covered include: welfare issues, perception and cognition, behaviour, health and diseases, stockmanship and the environment, handling, slaughter and transport, and perspectives of consumers and producers.
- Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- The importance of welfare, J K Kirkwood, Universities Federation for Animal Welfare and Human Slaughter Association, UK
Part I: THE STAKEHOLDERS
- Hen welfare: consumer perspective, P A W Parrott, Harper Adams University College, UK
- Government views on the welfare of laying hens, D G Pritchard, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, UK
- Politics of hen welfare, D Wilkins, Eurogroup for Animal Welfare, Belgium
- Implications of the World Trade Organization on hen welfare, D Bowles, RSPCA, UK
- The retailer-consumer relationship with particular reference to animal welfare, R Layton, rlconsulting, UK
- Quality assurance, J Gittins, ADAS, UK
- The producer and hen welfare, A Jorêt, Deans Foods Ltd, UK
PART II: OVERVIEWS
- The laying hen: systems of production, A Elson, ADAS Gleadthorpe, UK
- Stress and the welfare of laying hens, J P Thaxton, Mississippi State University, USA
PART III: WELFARE ISSUES
- Genetic influences on resource use, fear and sociality, J-M Faure, Station de Reserches Avicoles, France, and R B Jones, Roslin Institute (Edinburgh), UK
- The genetics of feather pecking and cannibalism, J Kjaer, Danish Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Denmark, and P M Hocking, Roslin Institute (Edinburgh), UK
- Breeding for productivity and welfare, W M Muir, Pardue University, USA, and H-W Cheng, USDA-ARS, USA
- Sensory perception : chemoreception, D E F McKeegan, Roslin Institute (Edinburgh), UK
- Vision in the laying hen, N B Prescott, J R Jarvis, and C M Wathes, Silcoe Research Institute, UK
- Pain and the laying hen, M Gentle and S Wilson, Roslin Institute (Edinburgh), UK
- Chicken cognition, C J Nicol, University of Bristol, UK
- Social space for laying hens, J J Cooper and M J Albentosa, University of Lincoln, UK
- Nesting, perching and dust-bathing, L Keeling, Swedish University of Agricultural Science, Sweden
- Environmental enrichment: the need for practical strategies to improve poultry welfare, R B Jones, Roslin Institute (Edinburgh), UK
- Feather pecking and feather loss, B Rodenburg and P Koene, Wageningen University, The Netherlands
- Cannibalism, R Newberry, Washington State University, USA
- Skeletal disorders in laying hens: the problem of osteoporosis and bone fractures, C C Whitehead, Roslin Institute (Edinburgh), UK Disease control, D Shingleton, Waterman Farm, UK
- Environmental management for laying hens, J-M Aerts, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium, C M Wathes and D Berckmans, Silsoe Research Institute, UK
- Lighting, G C Perry, University of Bristol, UK
- Nutrition, feedstuffs and feeding, M G MacLeod, Roslin Institute (Edinburgh), UK
- Human – animal interactions, P H Hemsworth, Victorian Institute of Animal Science, Australia
- Handling and catching of hens during depopulation, D Tinker and P S Berry, Silsoe Research Institute, UK, J A Rycroft, Unilever, UK, and N H Sparks, Avian Science Research Centre, UK
- Transport of chicks, pullets and spent hens, M A Mitchell, Roslin Institute (Edinburgh), UK, and PJ Kettlewell, Silsoe Research Institute, UK
- Stunning and slaughter, M Raj, University of Bristol, UK PART IV: OUTCOMES
- Overview, M C Appleby, The Humane Society of the United States, USA
PART V: Posters