What is causing smothering in laying hens?

Volume: 179, Issue: 10, Pages: 250 - 251
Published: Sep 1, 2016
Abstract
LAYING hens crowding in corners or other places in the barn or veranda, ‘piling up’, can lead to the birds smothering each other. This is a well-known but unpredictable event causing losses to producers and negatively affecting animal welfare. The cause and the process of this phenomenon are hard to explain as detection is normally after the incident when a few to several hundred dead laying hens are found. As highlighted in a paper summarised...
Paper Details
Title
What is causing smothering in laying hens?
Published Date
Sep 1, 2016
Volume
179
Issue
10
Pages
250 - 251
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