Preliminary programme

Monday 26th June 2023

Tuesday 27th June 2023

8.15 – 18.00      Registration

8.45 – 9.00        Opening ceremony

9.00 – 11.30      Session 1 – Welfare as part of the future of poultry production

9.00 –  9.15       Update on poultry welfare in the frame of current revision of EU legislation
                            Virgine Michel

9.15 – 9.45        Selecting for improved animal welfare contributes to more sustainable production of eggs 
                            Teun van de Braak

9.45 – 10.15      Short oral presentations

10.15 – 10.45    Coffee break

10.45 – 11.15    Welfare as part of sustainability of chicken meat production
                            Anne-Marie Neeteson

11.15 – 11.30    Short oral presentation

11.30 – 12.45    Session 2 – Welfare assessment and precise livestock farming

11.30 – 12.00    A framework for a comprehensive poultry welfare label: scientific, logistic and ethical challenges
                            Frank Tuyttens

12.00 – 12.45    Short oral presentation

12.45 – 14.15    Lunch

14.15 – 16.15    Session 3 –  Best practices for poultry housing and management

14.15 – 14.45    Precision poultry farming and welfare
                            Tomas Norton

14.45 – 16.15    Short oral presentations 

16.15 – 16.45    Coffee break, posters

16.45 – 18.15    Session 4 – Bone quality

16.45 – 18.15    Short oral presentations

18.15 – 19.45    Poster cocktail

Wednesday 28th June 2023

8.00 – 17.00      Registration

8.30 – 10.15      Session 5 –  Welfare challenges

8.30 – 9.00         Embryo pain, stress, welfare
                            Eddy Decuypere

9.00 – 10.15      Short oral presentations 

10.15 – 10.45    Coffee break

10.45 – 12.30    Session 6 – Welfare of day-old chicks, including early nutrition and on-farm hatching

10.45 – 11.15    Are alternative hatching systems beneficial for chicken welfare?
                            Anja Brinch Riber (Aarhus Universitet),  Ingrid de Jong (WUR)

11.15 – 12.30    Short oral presentations

12.30 – 14.00    Lunch

14.00 – 15.45    Session 7 – Fear and stress in poultry – identifying causes, preventive and mitigative strategies

14.00 – 15.45    Short oral presentations

15.45 – 16.15    Coffee break

16.15 – 17.30    Session 8 – Open session

16.15 – 17.30    Short oral presentations

17.30 – 18.45    Poster reviewing

17.30 – 18.30    WG9 annual meeting

19.45                 Social dinner

Thursday 29th June 2023

8.45 – 11.00      Registration

9.00 – 11.50      Session 9 –  Poultry behaviour and environmental enrichment

9.00 – 10.15      Short oral presentations

10.15 – 10.35    Coffee break

10.35 – 11.50    Short oral presentations

11.50 – 12.15    Closing ceremony

12.15 – 13.30    Lunch

13.45 – 18.15    Technical tours