The recently released 2019 Animal Care Report from Perdue is a testament to the challenges faced to keep animals healthy and comfortable while changing production practices.
We continue to study and better understand how to provide what chickens want as well as what they need. This year we learned a lot about how enrichments encourage activity, began measuring chicken comfort during transport and studied the behavioral traits of alternative breeds, among other initiatives. . . ” – Dr. Bruce Stewart-Brown
Source: WattAgnet.com, July 12, 2019. Link. For 2019, Perdue is launching new initiatives to further enhance chicken health and comfort at all life stages. Parent breeder issues, including weight management approaches for pullets, early chick care, and challenges special to chickens raised to heavier weights will be focuses for the coming year.
INSIGHTS: Keeping measurement science in production is often challenging as demands change. However, it is the responsibility of animal health pros to manage, measure and report for the benefit of the animals and food supply.