Dr. Karen Schwean-Lardner: Performance Through Lighting | Ep. 50

Lighting is incredibly important for birds as it affects their behavior, physiology, and overall well-being. Various lighting components, such as light intensity, wavelength, and day length, play a significant role in bird performance and welfare. Properly managing lighting conditions can greatly impact bird health and production outcomes. In this episode, I talk to Dr. Schwean-Lardner about the importance of lighting for birds, as well as transportation and other management aspects related to poultry's overall welfare and performance.

“Lighting affects production, behavior, bird welfare, physiology. It affects so many different components, and yet it's relatively easy to be able to manage once you understand what you should be doing." - Dr. Karen Schwean-Lardner

• (00:00) Highlight
• (02:27) Introduction
• (06:38) Guest’s main research areas
• (08:20) Birds transportation
• (13:56) Lighting for poultry: research on dark period
• (21:20) Lighting and stocking density research on turkeys
• (25:46) Poultry beak treatment
• (27:59) Future challenges and developments in poultry production
• (35:50) Final thoughts

Meet the guest: Dr. Karen Schwean-Lardner

Experience:

• Current: Professor at University of Saskatchewan

Background:

• Ph.D., Broiler welfare and management (University of Saskatchewan)
• M.Sc., Poultry welfare and management (University of Saskatchewan)
• B.Sc., Animal Science (University of Saskatchewan)

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