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Senior laying hens: optimization of animal welfare and significant extension of the residence period for vital senior laying hens in organic farming

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Authority

Ministerium für Energiewende, Landwirtschaft, Umwelt, Natur und Digitalisierung des Landes Schleswig-Holstein

Federal State

Schleswig-Holstein

Contact

Mercatorstraße 3
24106 Kiel

Website: External link to the authority

Project Title

Senior laying hens: optimization of animal welfare and significant extension of the residence period for vital senior laying hens in organic farming

Project description

Because actually the residence period of laying hens is 12 months and flocks are periodically renewed, the male half of them is killed as one day old chickens. This ethically less than satisfactory situation shows a project as wanting which could develop management systems in respect to appropriate animal welfare of laying hens, with the goal to significantly extend their lifetime to about two years. Six farms, consultants and scientists participate in this project, developing key parameters to be measured with a passage of layers over the extended residence period and systematically check and record the data in the hen houses. "Animal welfare indicators" show the effects of the actions undertaken. In addition, the economic situation of the farms with senior laying hens is analyzed.The suitability of the methods for prolonged laying hen holding is judged at the end of the project to decide their possible merits and further implementation on other farms.

Key words

  • Farming practice/activity
  • Animal husbandry

Main funding source

Rural development 2014-2020

OG contact information

Ökoring S.-H. e.V., Versuchs- und Beratungsring Ökologischer Landbau Schleswig-Holstein
Grüner Kamp 15-17
24768 Rendsburg

Phone: 04331-9453460

Email: romanaholle@oekoring-sh.de

Type of OG partners

  • Farmer
  • Farmer

Begin of project

2015

Project status

ongoing

Total budget applied for in EUR

228,501

NUTS3 CODE

DEF0B Rendsburg-Eckernförde

Europäischer Landwirtschaftsfonds für die Entwicklung des ländlichen Raums: Hier investiert Europa in die ländlichen Gebiete.

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