This chapter describes the effects housing systems on the behaviour and welfare of hens kept for egg production and for broilers kept for chicken meat production. Welfare problems in breeding hens, in the rearing of young chickens and in rearing turkeys, ducks and geese are also discussed.

A brief overview on the origin and domestication of the pig is given in this chapter. The different pig breeds, their origins and characteristics are presented. Handling and restraint, housing, health planning, waste management, welfare monitoring, feeding, notifiable diseases and abnormal...