The direction of poultry welfare: layers

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Demands for animal and poultry welfare continue to grow around the world. Poultry welfare receives attention from interest groups, multinational poultry companies, local consumers, commercial retailers, food chain companies, restaurants, and governments.

In the past two years, South American and Asian countries have either implemented regulations or set plans for adopting international standards of animal welfare

Layer production receives a lot of consideration by groups interested in animal welfare due to the cage systems, the high productivity of these birds, and other management practices not well understood and consequently not accepted.

• Egg producers have been very proactive in answering concerns and adapting to customers’ suggestions and new governmental legislation.
• Many animal welfare certifications have been created with robust training and auditing programs.

It is expected to observe a greater standardization of those Certifications and Auditing process in the years to come.

• The market of growing male layer chicks for their meat is growing, especially in Western Europe.
• On the other side, the in ovo sexing systems in the last phases of development will have to start commercial tests sooner.
• For example, Agri Advanced Technologies GmbH announced a successful application of their in ovo sexing machine Cheggy in HyLine Italy a few weeks ago.