Project
BroilerNet 2024
The aim of BroilerNet is to promote the sustainability and resilience of the European broiler sector by applying best practices on primary farms
on the themes of animal welfare, animal health and environmental impact. BroilerNet is a thematic network project, which means that challenges for the sector on the three themes of animal welfare animal health and environmental impact are identified in national networks of livestock farmers, other sector players and research.
Subsequently, within these networks solutions are sought for these challenges ('good practices'). These solutions, are then reviewed by an EU-wide thematic network that assesses all ideas from the 13 participating countries and extracts the best best practices. The best practices will be given a cost-benefit analysis and shared with livestock farmers, integrations, and other sector parties through various communication channels (videos, virtual farm visits, fact sheets, road shows). The cycle of identification of challenges and best practices, and subsequent EU-wide review and knowledge dissemination, will take place 3x within the project duration, which will lead to 24 best practices and thus practice-ready solutions per theme, as well as 3x36 elaborated best practices that will also be widely communicated.xperiment to assess indicators of positive welfare in poultry using highly rated resources.