{"id":5279,"date":"2004-01-01T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2004-01-01T01:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/export.maxmaziy.php.nixsolutions.com\/?p=373"},"modified":"2004-01-01T01:01:01","modified_gmt":"2004-01-01T01:01:01","slug":"further-evaluation-of-nonfeed-removal-methods-for-molting-programs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/further-evaluation-of-nonfeed-removal-methods-for-molting-programs\/","title":{"rendered":"Further evaluation of nonfeed removal methods for molting programs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Laying hens that have completed a 40 week laying period may be put through a molt (loss of feathers and cessation of lay) and then begin a second laying period.  Many methods used to induce this temporary stoppage of lay involve dramatic if not complete feed withdrawal.  This raises serious welfare concerns.  Alternative methods of inducing a molt have been developed.  In this study several nonfeed withdrawal methods were compared with conventional programs (10 day withdrawal).  The nonfeed withdrawal methods involved changing the diets to 94% corn, 94% wheat midlings, 71% wheat midlings:23% corn, 47% wheat midlings:47% corn, 95% corn gluten, and 94% distillers dried grains.  The feed withdrawal programs achieved complete cessation of lay within a few days.  With the exception of the distillers dried grains, all of the nonfeed withdrawal treatments reduced egg production to less than 6% during the program.  Once laying was re-induced by the provision of a high quality laying diet there were no differences among treatments on egg production or quality.  The results indicate that several nonfeed withdrawal programs are effective in inducing a molt and that subsequent production is unaffected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Laying hens that have completed a 40 week laying period may be put through a molt (loss of feathers and cessation of lay) and then begin a second laying period. Many methods used to induce this temporary stoppage of lay involve dramatic if not complete feed withdrawal. This raises serious welfare concerns. Alternative methods of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[928],"tags":[8882,2096,577,1287,6295,135,4282,6904,46,20007,269,133,10859,15459,16262,17743,27282,12671,95,20911,52,20757,27281,934,20289],"class_list":["post-5279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-welfare","tag-al","tag-alternative","tag-diet","tag-diets","tag-distillers","tag-egg","tag-egg-productionlaying-henlaying-hensmoltingnonfeed-removalproductionwelfare","tag-fee","tag-feed","tag-gh","tag-heat","tag-hens","tag-nat","tag-ped","tag-pl","tag-prod","tag-production","tag-provis","tag-quality","tag-t","tag-treatment","tag-vision","tag-welfare","tag-wheat","tag-withdrawal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}