...house temperature by up to 2°C compared to the outside temperature. Performance loss in broilers was minimized and stress in the house was reduced, increasing animal welfare.An additional d...
Wide platforms for broilers to sit on or shelter under when in the house have a positive effect on some animal welfare indicators without an adverse effect on growth, feed intake, feed conversion or c...
...e how technology can also improve the lives of our farm animals! (Animal species: fattening pigs / broilers) DEMO AI algorithms teach cameras as a dairy farmer watches claws Claw p...
...hare the knowledge and experiences of these teams widely in Europe. Initially, the focus will be on broilers and pigs. Later, applications in other types of livestock such as cattle or turkeys are ...
... effects can be achieved with age-appropriate feed and careful litter selection and management. Broilers receive several feeds in their lifetime: a starter for the chicks, a grower as they matu...
...lk, eggs, meat) for the commonly used animal production systems in Belgium (pig, laying hens, broilers, dairy cattle and beef cattle). For the inputs, the researchers worked on the basis of the fee...
...nde defended her doctoral thesis, 'Dietary zinc source affects performance and intestinal health in broilers'. Promotors are Prof. Dr. R. Ducatelle and Prof. Dr. F. Van Immerseel of Ghent Universit...
...project. So far, 3 species of algae have been tested in 3 different trials, in both laying hens and broilers, but concrete results are still awaiting completion of all analyses. The main question o...
...cted, the residual fraction could be used as feed. Feed trials with laying hens and broilers will assess the effects on chicken growth and egg quality. Other by-products that cannot be valorized in...
...rther investigated. As a result, it might be possible in the future to monitor the contamination of broilers with, for example, Salmonella or Campylobacter (pathogenic microorganisms transmitted th...
...tation), and the relative importance of soy in the rations of the different animal species (19% for broilers, 12% for layers, 5% for pigs and 4% for cattle). Themes that are therefore high on the r...
...ghtered worldwide each year. The largest number of production animals that undergo this process are broilers. Approximately 44 billion broilers are slaughtered worldwide, 300 million of which in Be...