Poultry Welfare

Poultry welfare resources: pdfs, video, and links.

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What the resource covers

  • Access to the chicken behaviour and welfare MOOC (online course)
  • Videos and resources from Poultry experts at SRUC and the University of Edinburgh

Chicken behaviour and welfare MOOC

Topics are covered on a week-by-week basis and include:

  1. Introduction to animal behaviour: domestication, behaviour development and learning, and senses
  2. Behaviour patterns of chickens (part 1)
  3. Behaviour patterns of chickens (part 2)
  4. What is chicken welfare? Defining 'welfare', ethical obligations, and welfare standards

The majority of the videos on this course have translations in English, French and Spanish. Other language transcripts have been kindly translated by volunteers which range from Hungarian to Arabic but it is varied for each video.

Videos

The following videos are by Dr Vicky Sandilands, SRUC

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