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Air Quality and Hen Health Status in Three Types of Commercial Laying Hen Houses [PDF]
, 2007 Environmental conditions and bird health are important elements in assessment of animal welfare for laying hen housing systems, but limited information is available comparing different types of systems. Three types of laying hen houses - caged high-rise,
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Fluorine Toxicity and Laying Hen Performance
Poultry Science, 1986 Two hundred eighty-eight Single Comb White Leghorn (SCWL) hens were treated for 252 days with sodium fluoride added to a practical wheat-soybean meal-type basal diet to supply 0, 100, 400, 700, 1,000, and 1,300 ppm fluoride (F). On Day 252, hens fed the two highest levels of F were switched to the control diet and the experiment continued for another ...
W, Guenter, P H, Hahn
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Poultry Science, 2016 The Welfare Quality(®) Assessment protocol for poultry ( WQA: ) provides animal-based measures allowing welfare comparisons across farms and housing systems.
R. A. Blatchford, R. Fulton, J. Mench
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Insect‐Derived Bioactives for Glycemic Control and Gut Health: A Review
Food Frontiers, EarlyView.Insect‐derived bioactive compounds (e.g., peptides, polysaccharides) effectively regulate blood glucose through dual mechanisms: directly inhibiting carbohydrate‐digesting enzymes and glucose transporters, and indirectly modulating gut microbiota to enhance intestinal barrier integrity.
Chaoyi Lv +5 more
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, 2018 The aim of the study was to evaluate egg shell quality characteristics, mineral content in the egg shell, and serum mineral concentration during the egg formation process as influenced by oviposition time and ambient temperature at the beginning and end ...
E. Tůmová, R. Gous, N. Tyler
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Failed landings after laying hen flight in a commercial aviary over two flock cycles.
Poultry Science, 2016 Many egg producers are adopting alternative housing systems such as aviaries that provide hens a tiered cage and a litter-covered open floor area. This larger, more complex environment permits expression of behaviors not seen in space-limited cages, such
D. Campbell +4 more
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Food Frontiers, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Organic egg production requires daily provision of coarse feed, fresh or dried forage, and silage to poultry. This study employed flavoromics, metabolomics, and quantitative lipidomics to investigate the effects of replacing 0% (CK), 10% (T10), and 20% (T20) of the basal diet of laying geese with alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) on the sensory ...
Baochao Bai +9 more
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The Geographical Journal, EarlyView., 2023 Short Abstract Through interviews with farmers in the Upper Rhine Valley, this article analyses the objectives, drivers and obstacles to adaptation practices and their synergies and trade‐offs with mitigation and other social and environmental issues.
Gaël Bohnert, Brice Martin
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PROTECTING SHELL EGGS BETWEEN PACKING PLANT AND SUPERMARKET [PDF]
Studies the importance of factors affecting eggshell damage such as type of pack, age of laying hen and season of year.Agribusiness,
Lederer, Bruce E.
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Consumer perception and communication on welfare in organic laying hen farming [PDF]
, 2012 A major reason for increased societal popularity of organic production systems is the growing general discontent with intensive farming practices. However, urbanization leads to limited knowledge of farming and farm animal welfare.
Heerkens, Jasper, Tuyttens, Frank
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