Lighting in the shackling area: conciliating broiler welfare with labor comfort

The objective of this study was to investigate if blue lighting could reduce broiler stress and comply with legal labor comfort requirements in a new shackling area of a middle-size processing plant. In this study, the old shackling area was compared with the new area, where a blue lighting system w...

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Main Authors: GO Adamczuk, MG Trentin, JD de Lima, J Motta, RP Cantelli
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Fundação APINCO de Ciência e Tecnologia Avícolas 2014-06-01
Series:Brazilian Journal of Poultry Science
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1516-635X2014000200012&lng=en&tlng=en