Global Prospects of the Cost-Efficiency of Broiler Welfare in Middle-Segment Production Systems
In the 2000s, the idea of a so-called middle-segment arose in North-West Europe to address the criticism on intensive broiler production systems.Middle-segment systems being indoor housing of slower-growing broiler strains at a stocking density ≤38 kg/m2.Previous literature showed that Dutch middle-segment systems entail a relatively large ga