How hatcheries can be ready for animal welfare audits

摘要

Attention to animal welfare is important at all stages of the chicken's life, including the earliest stages in the hatchery.While there is a wide variety of auditing programs that assure that poultry hatcheries are following good welfare practices, the National Chicken Council (NCC)-based animal welfare audit guidelines in most cases will put hatchery managers in a "very good position for any audit that a customer or outside firm might do," said Dallas Wynn, senior manager, animal welfare, Tyson Foods.