About the research
In her PhD, Femke Delanglez (ILVO - UGent) investigated how catching laying hens can be done better, for both humans and animals. 🙎🏻♂️ 🐓 When laying hens have to go to the slaughterhouse, they are caught in the dark - because they are calmer then. Yet they often still get stressed or injured. It is also hard work for the catchers. Femke went in search of a better method, with an eye for the welfare of the hens as well as the working conditions of the catchers.
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