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Alternative Systems for Poultry Production

The 30th Poultry Science Symposium on Alternative Systems for Poultry – Health, Welfare and Productivity was held at the University of Strathclyde, John Anderson Campus, Glasgow, UK from the 7 - 9 September 2011.

To view the PDF of abstracts, please click HERE

Plenary lectures are now available in PDF format:

What are alternative systems for poultry?

Ernst. K. F. Fröhlich, Knut Niebuhr, Lars Schrader, Hans Oester

The impact of legislation and assurance schemes on alternative systems for poultry welfare

David G. Pritchard

Politics and economics

Michael C. Appleby

The effects of alternative systems on disease and health of poultry

Stephen Lister, Bert van Nijhuis

Production systems for laying hens and broilers and risk of human pathogens

Sebastiaan Van Hoorebeke, Jeroen Dewulf, Filip Van Immerseel, Freida Jorgensen

Introduction to village and backyard poultry production

Robert A.E. Pym, Robyn G. Alders

Technology and programmes for sustainable improvement of village poultry production

Badi Besbes, Olaf Thieme, Antonio Rota, E. Fallou Guèye, Robyn G. Alders

Production systems for waterfowl

Daniel Guémené, Z. Dan Shi, Gérard Guy

Game bird breeding, brooding and rearing – health and welfare (Part 1 & 2)

Tom Pennycott, Charles Deeming, Marion McMillan

Housing and management of layer breeders in rearing and production

Hans-Heinrich Thiele

Furnished cages for laying hens

H. Arnold Elson, Ragnar Tauson

Performance, welfare, health and hygiene of laying hens in non-cage systems in comparison with cage systems

T. Bas Rodenburg, Koen De Reu and Frank A.M. Tuyttens

Housing and management of broiler breeders and turkey breeders (Part 1 & 2)

Ingrid C. de Jong, Magnus Swalander (Tim Burnside)

Alternative systems for meat chickens and turkeys: production, health and welfare

Tracey A. Jones, Jutta Berk

Nutritional challenges of alternative production systems

Murdo G. MacLeod, James S. Bentley

Genotype environment interaction: breeding layers with different requirements for varying housing systems

Wiebke Icken, Matthias Schmutz, Rudi Preisinger

Is there a future for alternative systems?

Victoria Sandilands, Paul Hocking