Chickens make up to 15,000 pecking strokes a day. To prevent them from injuring their conspecifics, their beaks were shortened until 2017. Risk factors were identified in the project to protect hens with untrimmed beaks from feather pecking and cannibalism. In addition to the equipment in the henhouse, enrichment material is particularly important. A control scheme developed in the project supports farms in ensuring the welfare of their flocks. The simple application is particularly suitable for small laying hen farms.
This factsheet explains how bringing a team of farmer, vet, feed and farm advisors together is sharing different sources of knowledge together, making the Multi Actor Farm Health approach an effective approach to improve biosecurity on poultry farms
An infographic providing a compact overview on Polish company approach to recycle organic waste and by-products.
This factsheet presents the biosecurity audit tool Biocheck Ugent, that can give a biosecurity scoring in poultry farms to measure biosecurity level.