Improving hen welfare on cage-free egg farms in Asia: Egg producers' perspectives.

ABSTRACT: There is a trend towards the adoption of cage-free housing systems in the egg industry across Asia. While cage-free housing systems can hold significant animal welfare advantages over cages, there can also be challenges in managing these systems. This exploratory study aimed to investigate the perspectives of egg producers on the main challenges and proposed solutions associated with cage-free systems in China, Indonesia, Thailand, Japan, Malaysia, and the Philippines. Cage-free producers found disease prevention and maintaining a healthy profit margin more difficult than producers from cage farms, while it was less difficult to provide environmental enrichment in cage-free systems compared to cage farms. The top challenges for cage-free producers were the cost of production, system manage

SUBMITTER: Hartcher K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10936346 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature