Husbandry and Genetic Strategies to Improving Hide Quality of Ostriches

Foreword......Page 5
Acknowledgments......Page 6
Methods used:......Page 9
Declawing......Page 10
Recommendations:......Page 11
1.3 Declawing......Page 12
1.4 Welfare......Page 13
2. Objectives......Page 14
Pain......Page 15
Morphology......Page 16
3.6 Genetics......Page 17
Currently, in Australia, the income per slaughtered bird is almost entirely based on the returns from saleable meat yield and hide. Although, there is a significant potential additional value in feathers, fat and offal, this value is yet to be realise.........Page 18
Scoring for filoplumes was as follows;......Page 19
Day old chicks......Page 20
Ingestive......Page 21
Declawing......Page 22
4.4 Statistical Analysis of behaviour and skin grades......Page 23
Comments on filoplumes and bristle hairs on farm A, B and C......Page 24
Characteristics of filoplume and bristle hairs observed......Page 25
Day-old Chicks......Page 30
Year-old ostriches......Page 32
Skin Quality of declawed birds......Page 36
Locomotor......Page 35
6. Implications......Page 37
Further research and development is required in the following areas:......Page 38
8. References......Page 39