Feeding and Nesting Behaviors of Laying Hens in Enriched Colony Housing
1.Introduction Legislations and/or demand by food service/grocer sectors have led to transitioning of egg production systems from conventional cage to alternative housing (e.g., enriched colony, aviary cage-free) has been occurring, especially in Europe and the United States.However, numerous questions about the design and operation of the relatively new alternative hen-housing systems remain to be addressed.The objective of this work was to collect benchmark data on feeding and nesting behaviors of individual laying hens in an enriched colony housing (ECH) system.Data from this study will provide insight into simultaneous feeding of the hens, thus implication for feeder space allocation, and variability among the individual hens.Similar information will result regarding the nesting behavior.
Jofran Oliveira Hongwei Xin Yang Zhao Kaesey Glaess
Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, USA
国际会议
The First Asian Conference on Precision Livestock Farming (2016 PLF-Asia)(首届亚洲智慧畜牧业国际研讨会)
北京
英文
114-115
2016-09-09（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）