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In Pursuit of a Better Broiler: Growth, Efficiency, and Mortality of 16 Strains of Broiler Chickens by Stephanie Torrey; Mohsen Mohammadigheisar; Midian Nascimento dos Santos; Daniel Rothschild; Lauren C. Dawson; Zhenzhen Liu; Elijah G. Kiarie; A. Michelle Edwards; Ira Mandell; Niel Karrow; Dan Tulpan; Tina M. Widowski is a Agricultural and Biological Sciences article available to read on EtoBox.
What is In Pursuit of a Better Broiler: Growth, Efficiency, and Mortality of 16 Strains of Broiler Chickens about?
To meet the growing consumer demand for chicken meat, the poultry industry has selected broiler chickens for increasing efficiency and breast yield. While this high productivity means affordable and consistent product, it has come at a cost to broiler welfare. There has been increasing advocacy and consumer pressure on primary breeders, producers, processors, and retailers to improve the welfare of the billions of chickens processed annually. Several small-scale studies have reported better welfare outcomes for slower-growing strains compared to fast-growing, conventional strains. However, these studies often housed birds with range access or used strains with vastly different growth rates. Additionally, there may be traits other than growth, such as body conformation, that influence welfare. As the global poultry industries consider the implications of using slower growing strains, there was a need for a comprehensive, multidisciplinary examination of broiler chickens with a wide range of genotypes differing in growth rate and other phenotypic traits. To meet this need, our team designed a study to benchmark data on conventional and slower-growing strains of broiler chickens reare
Who reads In Pursuit of a Better Broiler: Growth, Efficiency, and Mortality of 16 Strains of Broiler Chickens?
It is typically read by researchers, students, and practitioners in Agricultural and Biological Sciences.
- Author
- Stephanie Torrey; Mohsen Mohammadigheisar; Midian Nascimento dos Santos; Daniel Rothschild; Lauren C. Dawson; Zhenzhen Liu; Elijah G. Kiarie; A. Michelle Edwards; Ira Mandell; Niel Karrow; Dan Tulpan; Tina M. Widowski
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2020
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Agricultural and Biological Sciences (Life Sciences)