Animal Welfare

Sustainability

Silvopasture systems offer benefits for poultry health

Adding vegetation to poultry pastures could improve poultry health and welfare as well as help prevent the spread of avian flu.

Brand Insights

Enhancing Poultry Production: Gut Health Strategies and Feed Additives

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Gain in-depth insights into two critical aspects of poultry production: enhancing bird health through advanced nutrition and versatile feed additives. 

Animal Welfare

Noble Foods, actor Kelvin Fletcher partner on hen welfare

Structures for climbing and tires filled with dust are just a couple of the enrichment materials the egg producer provides its birds.

Poultry Tech Trends

Chick vocalization study has implications for people too

Audio monitoring could improve poultry welfare and find new treatments for human depression.

Hen Housing Systems

How Burnbrae Farms aims to overcome activist challenges

Burnbrae Farms CEO Margaret Hudson explains how the company is dealing with an active campaign from an animal activist group.

Egg Production

Egg sector leads Good Farm Animal Welfare Awards

Cage-free production beneficial for customers, brands and birds, say award ceremony’s organizers.

North America

Canada government invests in poultry welfare research

The Canadian Poultry Research Council is the recipient of a CA$5.16 million allocation.

Broilers

Foster Farms responds to animal cruelty situation

After the company learned that chickens were being abused at a California facility, it terminated the workers, reported them to law enforcement and increased its measures to protect animals.

Poultry Tech Trends

Blushing hens could improve welfare monitoring

Chickens also rely on facial expressions to express emotions, French researchers show.

Latin America

Brazilian food companies form animal welfare grouping

Initiative including Brazil’s largest poultry and egg producers aims to share welfare knowledge, increase dialogue both at home and, longer-term, beyond Brazil’s borders.

Broilers

Study: Evenly spaced enrichments best for broiler behavior

When given a choice, free-range chickens spent most time on range areas where shade resources were evenly spread, according to a recent Australian study.

New Technologies

Broiler welfare monitoring technology enters new era

Researchers’ next frontier: teaching machines to think like us.

Chicken Marketing Summit News

Challenges the poultry industry of 2035 should prepare for

Disasters, pressure to improve bird welfare and labor will affect how the poultry industry operates during the next decade.

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