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Backpack-wearing chickens are helping change the way we study animal welfare

By Mary Baxter, Research Fellow in Animal Welfare, Queen's University Belfast
The chicken sheds I conduct research in are enormous – over three-quarters the length of a football field and 20 metres wide. In each house, around 28,000 near-identical broiler chickens, which are the type we use for meat, are reared in six-week production cycles.

My research helps farms find ways to improve the welfare of these birds. This might involve adjusting…The Conversation


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