Both stocking rate and housing systems are main factors influencing the occurrence of feather pecking in laying hens raised in conventional cage system. This study examines the effects of different type of cage and stock density on feather pecking behaviour in hens. Total of 216 Hisex Brown hens at ...

Chickens are highly motivated to perform perching behaviour when perch is available to access. This study aimed to determine whether evaporative cooling perches can promote perching behaviour in cooped Thai native hens during the summer season from March to April. Five mature Thai native hens...

The influence of stocking density on feather pecking and aggressive behavior of Thai crossbred chickens was investigated from age 4-12 wk. In total, 900 day-old mixed sex Thai crossbred chickens were assigned to three replicates of 100 birds per pen, at stocking densities of 8 birds/m², 12 birds/m² ...

Horses were provided full-time housing in unfamiliar vector-protected facilities during the African horse sickness (AHS) outbreak in Thailand. This study aimed to investigate the impact of this housing arrangement on the equine stress response. Nine healthy horses were housed in both a traditional...

Asian red-tailed catfish (Hemibagrus wyckioides) were raised at five different stocking densities in cages (submerged and with a volume of 1 m³) suspended in a fish pond from July to August 2012. H. wyckioides fries (mean weight 0.8±0.1 g) were stocked at densities of 25, 50, 100, 200, and 400...

This work describes the negative effects of the increasing demand for meat production on the health and welfare of chickens in intensive production systems, and the results of a 2016 survey on public concern on how chickens are produced. More than 7000 respondents from Brazil, China, Thailand,...

This is the seventh annual report from the Business Benchmark on Farm Animal Welfare. It analyses the farm animal welfare management and performance of 150 of the world's largest food companies, across 35 distinct, objective criteria. As such, it is the most authoritative and comprehensive global...

The objective of this study was to investigate the effects of stocking density (8, 12 and 16 birds/m²) on and tonic immobility duration (a measure of fearfulness) of Thai crossbred chickens (n=900 birds) kept at 100 birds per pen. The results showed that stocking density had no significant (P>0.05) ...

The aim of this study was to investigate the reproductive performance of lactating sows in Thailand kept in farrowing housing using an evaporative cooling system (EVAP) in comparison with conventional farrowing system (CONV). The study was based on data from one commercial sow herd, with four ...

In Thailand, knowledge about the factors affecting broiler losses during the preslaughter process is very limited, especially for broilers raised without an antibiotic program. The objective of this study was to determine the preslaughter factors that influence the incidence of dead on arrival...