Transporting turkeys in challenging conditions

Transporting poultry from farm to slaughterhouse is a challenging endeavour even in perfect conditions, and minimising bird stress is not only a boon for welfare, it means birds arrive with less liveweight shrink and other potentially detrimental effects on bird welfare. The Turkey Science and Production Conference recently heard about Canadian research to help quantify the effects of temperature and humidity variations on turkeys during transport. Canada is a big country, and relatively few pe