Animal welfare: chickens

Guidance and services

• Animal welfare establishments: code of best practice
• Laying hen welfare: code of practice
• Meat chicken welfare: code of practice
• Caring for farm animals and horses in extreme weather

Policy and background Includes strategy, reports, projects and assessments.

• Animal Welfare Plan for Wales 2021 to 2026
  Policy and strategy
• Animal Welfare Committee: opinion on alternatives to culling newly hatched chicks in the egg and poultry industry
  Report
• Animal Welfare Committee: opinion on the welfare implications of different methods and systems for the manual handling of poultry
  Report
• Animal Welfare Committee: opinion on the use of high expansion nitrogen foam delivery systems for depopulation of poultry flocks affected by notifiable disease in the UK
  Report
• Animal Welfare Committee (AWC): opinion on the welfare of laying hens in non-cage production systems
  Policy and strategy