Background During the last decades, several challenges have significantly affected the egg
industry, such as the increasing consumer demand for animal welfare, the need for more …

This paper investigates how consumers can be guided towards healthy diets from
sustainable and more animal-friendly food systems, in times when no single food system …

Currently, there is an intensive ethical discussion about the practice of culling day-old layer
cockerels. One solution to avoid this practice could be using dual-purpose types, where …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to understand consumer attitudes toward organic eggs
by identifying their profiles and estimating the degree of their willingness to pay (WTP) for …

Animal welfare is a key and distinct component of sustainable agriculture and food security.
People, both as citizens and consumers, have become more concerned about the …

The current practices of the poultry industry have raised concerns among consumers.
Among these is the culling of day-old male chicks of laying hybrids; a suitable alternative for …

Dual-purpose chicken where both sexes are reared together, before males are separated for
final fattening, while females are kept for an entire laying period, may provide an economic …

This study aimed to develop a tool to validate multivariety breed egg quality classification
depending on quality-related internal and external traits using a discriminant canonical …

This paper investigates consumers' preferences for egg purchase in two European
countries, Hungary and Italy. We utilize random parameter logit models to interpret the …

To avoid chick culling, meat production can be carried out with either dual-purpose hybrids,
where both genders are used, or layer males. However, comparative in-depth studies are …