Poultry Production and Welfare

Broiler Chickens
❌ integration = each company has control over ❌

Meat = ❌

Trends:
- ❌ sold fresh
- ❌ sold frozen
- ❌ sold as whole birds
- ❌ sold as cuts, fillets, and value added products

Key stages of production:
- poultry breeding organisation produces ❌
- breeding farms are ❌
- feed mills owned and operated by ❌
- hatcheries
- broilers grow out farm ❌
- processing ❌ and ❌

Table Egg Industry

❌ Integration = ❌ buying chicks from ❌ hatcheries and buying feed from ❌. Marketing is done ❌ or under a ❌

❌ of industry operated by vertical integration

Systems:
- ❌ (50%)
- ❌ cage
- ❌
- ❌

Processing of Eggs

NZ consumption = ❌ eggs per capita per annum

Approx. ❌ of egg production goes to further processing
Uses:
- ❌ ability
- ❌
- ❌ and ❌

Layers Welfare Issues

Egg a day production:
- ❌
- predisposed to ❌
- ❌ problems

- ❌ in large flocks
- ❌
- ❌ are killed

Broilers Welfare Issues

- ❌
- ❌ in feet and hocks
- ❌ syndrome
- ❌ death
- Caught by ❌
- ❌
- ❌