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Comparative evaluation of three egg production systems: Housing characteristics and management practices
This paper is an integral part of the special publication series that arose from the multidisciplinary and multi-institutional project of the Coalition for Sustainable Egg Supply (CSES). The CSES project involves 3 housing systems for egg production at the same research farm site in the Midwest, USA...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4990892/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25737566 http://dx.doi.org/10.3382/ps/peu077 |
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author | Zhao, Y. Shepherd, T. A. Swanson, J. C. Mench, J. A. Karcher, D. M. Xin, H. |
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description | This paper is an integral part of the special publication series that arose from the multidisciplinary and multi-institutional project of the Coalition for Sustainable Egg Supply (CSES). The CSES project involves 3 housing systems for egg production at the same research farm site in the Midwest, USA, namely, a conventional cage (CC) house, an aviary (AV) house, and an enriched colony (EC) house. The CC house (141.4 m L × 26.6 m W × 6.1 m H) had a nominal capacity of 200,000 hens (6 hens in a cage at a stocking density of 516 cm(2)/hen), and the cages were arranged in 10 rows, 8 tiers per cage row, with a perforated aisle walkway at 4-tier height. The AV house (154.2 m L × 21.3 m W × 3.0 m H) and the EC house (154.2 m L × 13.7 m W × 4.0 m H) each had a nominal capacity of 50,000 hens. The AV house had 6 rows of aviary colonies, and the EC house had 5 rows of 4-tier enriched colonies containing perches, nestbox, and scratch pads (60 hens per colony at a stocking density of 752 cm(2)/hen). The overarching goal of the CSES project, as stated in the opening article of this series, was to comprehensively evaluate the 3 egg production systems from the standpoints of animal behavior and well-being, environmental impact, egg safety and quality, food affordability, and worker health. So that all the area-specific papers would not have to repeat a detailed description of the production systems and the management practices, this paper is written to provide such a description and to be used as a common reference for the companion papers. |
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spelling | pubmed-49908922016-09-01 Comparative evaluation of three egg production systems: Housing characteristics and management practices Zhao, Y. Shepherd, T. A. Swanson, J. C. Mench, J. A. Karcher, D. M. Xin, H. Poult Sci Coalition for Sustainable Egg Supply This paper is an integral part of the special publication series that arose from the multidisciplinary and multi-institutional project of the Coalition for Sustainable Egg Supply (CSES). The CSES project involves 3 housing systems for egg production at the same research farm site in the Midwest, USA, namely, a conventional cage (CC) house, an aviary (AV) house, and an enriched colony (EC) house. The CC house (141.4 m L × 26.6 m W × 6.1 m H) had a nominal capacity of 200,000 hens (6 hens in a cage at a stocking density of 516 cm(2)/hen), and the cages were arranged in 10 rows, 8 tiers per cage row, with a perforated aisle walkway at 4-tier height. The AV house (154.2 m L × 21.3 m W × 3.0 m H) and the EC house (154.2 m L × 13.7 m W × 4.0 m H) each had a nominal capacity of 50,000 hens. The AV house had 6 rows of aviary colonies, and the EC house had 5 rows of 4-tier enriched colonies containing perches, nestbox, and scratch pads (60 hens per colony at a stocking density of 752 cm(2)/hen). The overarching goal of the CSES project, as stated in the opening article of this series, was to comprehensively evaluate the 3 egg production systems from the standpoints of animal behavior and well-being, environmental impact, egg safety and quality, food affordability, and worker health. So that all the area-specific papers would not have to repeat a detailed description of the production systems and the management practices, this paper is written to provide such a description and to be used as a common reference for the companion papers. Poultry Science Association, Inc. 2015-03-02 2015-03 /pmc/articles/PMC4990892/ /pubmed/25737566 http://dx.doi.org/10.3382/ps/peu077 Text en © The Author 2015. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Poultry Science Association. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com. |
spellingShingle | Coalition for Sustainable Egg Supply Zhao, Y. Shepherd, T. A. Swanson, J. C. Mench, J. A. Karcher, D. M. Xin, H. Comparative evaluation of three egg production systems: Housing characteristics and management practices |
title | Comparative evaluation of three egg production systems: Housing characteristics and management practices |
title_full | Comparative evaluation of three egg production systems: Housing characteristics and management practices |
title_fullStr | Comparative evaluation of three egg production systems: Housing characteristics and management practices |
title_full_unstemmed | Comparative evaluation of three egg production systems: Housing characteristics and management practices |
title_short | Comparative evaluation of three egg production systems: Housing characteristics and management practices |
title_sort | comparative evaluation of three egg production systems: housing characteristics and management practices |
topic | Coalition for Sustainable Egg Supply |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4990892/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25737566 http://dx.doi.org/10.3382/ps/peu077 |
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