on November 30, 2020
Genetic changes could help measure chicken stress
Minimally invasive tool detects how the poultry epigenome responds to poor welfare.
Researchers at Uppsala University in Sweden have developed a minimally-invasive tool that could help poultry farmers measure changes in the genome to detect the symptoms of long-term chronic stress in commercially-raised chickens, improving welfare and the quality of meat produced.
“It’s a new tool that could be used within…