ANFS101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Leghorn Chicken, Bernard Rollin, Pecking Order
16 May 2016
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Chapter 29 animal welfare and animal rights. Role of technology: innovation changed society, efficiency dramatically improved, includes agriculture, gave people time to pursue other things, unaware of modern agrarian ethic, old family farm, unrealistic. Period of activism: vietnam war, women"s movement, environmental movement, animal rights movement, philosophy, sociology and public policy, standing of animal"s in relation to humans. Doesn"t mean animals have the same rights as humans, but any animal use has to be respected by animals nature: childhood stories, cartoons, movies (disney, babe, notion of family farm. Example: sc white leghorn: what makes a scwl a scwl, what are actual characteristics, communicates, pecking order b. i. Always a top chicken: broodiness absent c. i. Sitting on a egg in a nest c. ii. Breed like that: eats well balanced ration d. i. Horn: talks, pecking order, builds and sits on a nest, pecks around the farmyard, foxes and chicken hawks steal the eggs, hatches the chicks and they dutifully follow hen, live forever.
