Stress, health and the welfare of laying hens
A. J. Tilbrook
A C and A. D. Fisher B
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A Centre For Animal Science, Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation, The University of Queensland, 306 Carmody Road, St Lucia, Qld 4072, Australia.
B Animal Welfare Science Centre, Faculty of Veterinary and Agricultural Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Grattan Street, Parkville, Vic. 3010, Australia.
C Corresponding author. Email: a.tilbrook@uq.edu.au
Animal Production Science 61(10) 931-943 https://doi.org/10.1071/AN19666
Submitted: 21 November 2019 Accepted: 2 May 2020 Published: 28 October 2020
Abstract
It is essential to understand responses to stress and the impact of stress on physiological and behavioural functioning of hens, so as to assess their welfare. The current understanding of stress in laying hens is comprehensively reviewed here. Most research on stress in hens has focussed on the activity of the adrenal glands, with the most common approach being to measure corticosterone, which is the predominant glucocorticoid produced by birds in response to stress. While these measures are useful, there is a need to understand how the brain regulates stress responses in hens. A greater understanding of the sympathoadrenal system and its interaction with the hypothalamo–pituitary–adrenal axis is required. There is also a lack of knowledge about the many other peptides and regulatory systems involved in stress responses in hens. The usefulness of understanding stress in hens in terms of assessing welfare depends on appreciating that different stressors elicit different responses and that there are often differences in responses to, and impacts of, acute and chronic stress. It is also important to establish the actions and fate of stress hormones within target tissues. It is the consequences of these actions that are important to welfare. A range of other measures has been used to assess stress in hens, including a ratio of heterophils to lymphocytes and haematocrit : packed cell-volume ratio and measures of corticosterone or its metabolites in eggs, excreta, feathers and the secretions of the uropygial gland. Measures in eggs have proffered varying results while measures in feathers may be useful to assess chronic stress. There are various studies in laying hens to indicate impacts of stress on the immune system, health, metabolism, appetite, and the quality of egg production, but, generally, these are limited, variable and are influenced by the management system, environment, genetic selection, type of stressor and whether or not the birds are subjected to acute or chronic stress. Further research to understand the regulation of stress responses and the impact of stress on normal functioning of hens will provide important advances in the assessment of stress and, in turn, the assessment of welfare of laying hens.
Additional keywords: animal stress, animal welfare, poultry, stress physiology.
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