laywel.eu Open in urlscan Pro
45.153.85.3  Public Scan

Form analysis
0 forms found in the DOM

Text Content

thuispagina
 * Introduction
 * General objective
 * Work Packages
 * Participants
 * Meetings
 * Publications





WELCOME TO LAYWEL

What is LayWel?

LayWel is a research project funded by the FP6 European Research Programme and
national fundings from different EU countries.
The LayWel- project studies the welfare implications of changes in production
systems for laying hens.


The general objective of the LayWel project is to produce a series of reports on
the welfare of laying hens in various systems, with special focus on enriched
cages, and to make the information well known, particularly over all member
states of the EU and associated countries.
The LayWel project is divided into 7 WorkPackages :
1. Welfare definitions
2. Housing systems
3. Health
4. Behaviour
5. Physiology and stress indicators
6. Productivity and egg quality
7. Integrated welfare assessment
The last WorkPackage is basically an assembly of the previous work.

A few highlights of exploitable knowledge from these workpackes

Photographic scoring system
A scoring system to quantify feather quality, skin lesions and other health
characteristics is important to be able to measure the effect of housing,
management and/or treatment on health and welfare of hens.




WP 7: Integrated welfare assessment







Manual for self assessment of welfare of laying hens on farm (English version)
The manual provides a tool for farmers to monitor the welfare status of their
birds in an objective way.




Database
The database comprises results of many studies on housing of laying hens in
various European countries. The data were collected both on commercial farms and
in experimental units.