Cooled Multifunctional Platforms to Alleviate Heat Stress in Broiler Chickens: Effects on Performance, Carcass and Meat Quality Traits
Bassem Khalfi, Kobe Buyse, Imad Khan, Camila Lopes Carvalho, Patricia Soster, Gunther Antonissen, Frank André Maurice Tuyttens, Danilo Florentino Pereira · 2024
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Description
Bassem Khalfi and colleagues test cooled roosting platforms for broiler chickens under heat stress, in a twenty twenty-four study. Platforms let birds rest up high, as they like. The new design adds cooling, a shaded underside, and trays that catch droppings. Across three rounds, 560 chicks per round were raised in plain or enriched pens, with one barn half heated for part of each day.
Bird growth was not hurt by the platforms. Heat cut weight, gain, and feed intake, as expected. Deaths dropped in hot enriched pens but not in cool ones, likely thanks to the cooling. Meat quality barely changed. The authors see the platforms as welfare gear that pays for itself under heat.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Bassem Khalfi, Kobe Buyse, Imad Khan, Camila Lopes Carvalho, Patricia Soster, Gunther Antonissen, Frank André Maurice Tuyttens, Danilo Florentino Pereira |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 38 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |