Effects of post-hatch brooding temperature on broilers

Intensive broiler production comes with challenges for animal welfare, including lameness and contact dermatitis, which may inflict pain and complicate performance of behavioural activities like, e.g. foraging. Besides welfare problems, lameness and contact dermatitis are of economical concern due to culling, on-farm mortality, and costly down-grading of the carcass. Another welfare and economic concern is the prevalence of non- and slow-starters. Non-starter broiler Broilers are incapable of