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In recent years, animal welfare and behavior in livestock farming has become one of the most important topics of current importance. As in other sectors of animal husbandry, animal welfare and behavior is an important issue in the rapidly growing poultry farming sector. Nowadays, the realization of most of the poultry production in conventional cages is considered as a problem in terms of animal welfare and behavior in the world, especially in EU countries. There is a negative impact on the breeding hens in cages. These are stress, health problems and negative behaviors such as inactivity, cage fatigue, foot and leg disorders, cannibalism, feather plucking. As a result, alternative production systems have been developed in many countries of the world, especially in the European Union. At this point, as given priority animal welfare, enriched cage system in which appropriate environmental conditions provided by different care management practices, organic farming, new cultivation system, such as the free-range system come to the fore. In this article, animal welfare, behavior and fertility relationships of breeding systems used in poultry are investigated. |
