Battery Hens Campaign: Resources Available

CIWF makes available the following publications:

Beyond the Battery - A Welfare Charter for Laying Hens
A report by Philip Lymbery, CIWF. A must for any group carrying out a battery hen campaign.

The Welfare Argument
Includes booklet on 'The Welfare of Laying Hens'

Farm Facts
Include fact sheets on factory farming and laying hens

Campaigning Against Cruelty
Teaching resource pack, containing forty colour slides (all aspects of farm animal welfare, including laying hens) with script and activities.

Do Hens Suffer in Battery Cages?
Report by Michael C Appleby, leading UK poultry expert

For Their Own Good
By Peter Stevenson - A study of mutilations on farm animals, including debeaking of hens.

Farm Animal Welfare Network (incorporating Chickens Lib.)
PO Box 40
Holmfirth
Huddersfield HD7 1QY
United Kingdom
Tel: + 44 484 688 650
Fax: + 44 484 689 408

FAWN makes available Hidden Suffering, a booklet and video for teachers and anyone seeking information on modern poultry production and its impact on the environment.

Universities Federation for Animal Welfare (UFAW)
8 Hamilton Close
South Mimms
Potters Bar
Herts EN6 3QD
United Kingdom
Tel: + 44 1707 658202
Fax: + 44 1707 649279
E-mail: ufaw@ufaw.org.uk
Internet: http://www.ufaw3.dircon.co.uk/

UFAW makes available the following publications:

Proceedings of 4th European Symposium on Poultry Welfare
Savory & Hughes

Management & Welfare of Farm Animals
The UFAW handbook - a comprehensive textbook of current animal husbandry aimed primarily at veterinary and agricultural students.

Animal Welfare A Cool Eye Towards Eden
Book by A J Webster, Professor of Animal Husbandry, Dept. of veterinary Science, Bristol University, which looks at man's 'dominion over animals, including a critical study on poultry husbandry.

Proceedings of the 29TH International Congress of the International Society for Applied Ethology
Proceedings of 1995 congress, which include interesting papers on poultry behaviour.

The Humane Slaughter Association
34 Blanche Lane
South Mimms
Potters Bar
Herts EN6 3PA
United Kingdom
Tel: + 44 1707 659040
Fax: + 44 1707 649279
E-mail: info@hsa.org.uk

The HSA publishes Poultry Slaughter - A Fowl End?, a fact sheet on poultry slaughter.

The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS)
2100 L Street, NW
Washington DC 20037
USA
Tel: +1 (301) 258 3010
Fax: +1 (301) 258 3082
E-mail: hsusfarm@ix.netcom.com
Internet: http://www.hsus.org

The HSUS publishes a range of information on farm animals, including the following on battery hens:
An Overview of Laying Hens and the US Industry
Laying Hens Factsheet
The Truth Behind 'a Hen's Life'
Laying Hens Action Alert & Reproducible

Please contact the groups listed for details of how to obtain the following publications, and current availability and prices.

Report on the Welfare of Laying Hens
July 1997. Report of the UK's Farm Animal Welfare Council. Some useful background information, but conclusions 'minimalist'. Free of charge from:
FAWC
Government Buildings
Hook Rise South
Tolworth
Surbiton
Surrey KT6 7NF
United Kingdom
Tel: + 44 181 330 8031

Farm Animal Behaviour and Welfare
A F Fraser & D M Broom
Comprehensive and authoritative textbook, which includes valuable information on poultry welfare problems. ISBN 0 85199 160 2
CAB International
Headquarters
Wallingford
Oxon OX10 8DE
United Kingdom

Heat Stress in Poultry - Solving the Problem
1995 publication, free of charge from the United Kingdom's Ministry of Agriculture (MAFF)
Tel: + 44 (0) 645 556000

Video - Stimulus Response
An excellent video which includes information on the way hens perceive stimuli and the way released battery hens react to these stimuli in a natural environment.
The Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour
Department of Biological Sciences
Homerton College
Cambridge CB2 2PH
United Kingdom

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