Panel highlights animal welfare in egg production as market demand

Posture poultry, as well as other sectors of livestock, live a paradigm shift in the theme of animal welfare. While customers in Brazil and abroad have demands such as cage-free, producers make accounts on how to serve buyers and end consumers.

The Workshop “Updating and Training in Egg Production Welfare”, which will take place at AveSui Eurotier South America 2019, will provide technical guidance to support these decisions on the part of producers.

According to Paulo Giovanni de Abreu, Embrapa Swine and Poultry and panel organizer, this is an opportunity to improve management and housing practices throughout the industry.

“The objective is to sensitize and prepare the chain to meet the new requirements of import markets, such as the production of ‘eggs out-of-cage’ , currently not standardized in the country,” he says.

The panel will feature some of the country’s top experts in the field, including researcher Helenice Mazzuco of Embrapa; by Professor Iran Oliveira of Esalq; and coach Diogo Ito of Hisex.

Helenice will embroider the implications of the cage-free system on the egg production chain both nationally and internationally. Already Iran will deal with aspects of animal welfare in the various production systems. In turn, Diogo will relate nutrition, biosafety and management to the theme of animal welfare with out-of-cage production.

“In Brazil, there is a great lack of information regarding animal welfare in the production of eggs. Thus, we aim to disseminate practices such as debating, induced mutation, depopulation of aviaries, modifications in poultry for poultry raising, enriched cages, among others, “details Paulo.

Finally, the panel coordinator believes that the producer will benefit because the proposed actions converge to the modernization of Brazilian poultry industry and allow access to new import markets, as well as boosting the Brazilian domestic market.

AveSui Eurotier will also count on other technical-scientific content (learn more) such as the panels on Biosafety, Meat Processing, Plant Breeding, Protein Market Development and Sustainability, Biomass & Bioenergy, Artificial Insemination and Porcine Reproduction Workshop, Fish and Euthanasia Methods for Swinws and poultry.