Preventing excessive feather pecking behaviour

Beak trimming has been the go to solution to prevent feather pecking in chickens and turkeys. However, since 2018 this is no longer allowed in the Netherlands. Scientists from Wageningen University are looking into improving chicken welfare by finding alternative measures to combat injurious pecking behaviour. Feather pecking and cannibalism are common in chickens and can cause a lot of discomfort, some chickens literally peck each other to death. These behavioural problems seem to occur both i