Commercial Poultry Production Stocking Density Influence on Bird Health and Performance Indicators.

animal welfare averaged daily gain commercial production economic performance poultry stocking density

Journal

Animals : an open access journal from MDPI
ISSN: 2076-2615
Titre abrégé: Animals (Basel)
Pays: Switzerland
ID NLM: 101635614

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
23 Jul 2020
Historique:
received: 19 06 2020
revised: 18 07 2020
accepted: 18 07 2020
entrez: 29 7 2020
pubmed: 29 7 2020
medline: 29 7 2020
Statut: epublish

Résumé

This study examines poultry production stocking density (SD) effect on bird welfare and economic performance. It is based on a large dataset from commercial production including observations for 2.2 million male broilers and 2.3 million female broilers from 37 production sites, with SD ranging from 20.63 kg/m

Identifiants

pubmed: 32718034
pii: ani10081253
doi: 10.3390/ani10081253
pmc: PMC7460447
pii:
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

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Auteurs

Stéphane Bergeron (S)

Egg Industry Economic Research Chair, Université Laval, Québec, QC G1V 0A6, Canada.

Emmanuelle Pouliot (E)

Department of Agricultural Economics and Consumer Science, Université Laval, Québec, QC G1V 0A6, Canada.

Maurice Doyon (M)

Department of Agricultural Economics and Consumer Science, Université Laval, Québec, QC G1V 0A6, Canada.

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