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| Sørensen, Poul; Danell, Brigitte; Brenøe, Ulrik; Tuiskula-Haavisto, Maria. |
| The poultry breeding is world wide concentrated in few and large breeding companies and none of them are situated in Nordic countries. Regarding egg laying stock the hybrids offered by these companies are primarily developed in order to produce in cage systems and although they are high producing stock they has some short comings when kept in free range systems in terms of inadequate behaviour, mislaying of eggs and sometimes high mortality. The question of using cages for keeping hens has been a matter of much concern for many people and an animal welfare approaches has lead to regulations in individual countries as well as at the EEC level. In Sweden use of conventional cages was forbidden from 2002 and the EEC has given rules which declare that it... |
| Tipo: Report |
Palavras-chave: Breeding and genetics. |
| Ano: 2004 |
URL: http://orgprints.org/7196/1/7196.rtf |
