Publications by authors named "Hugues Duret"
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- The popularity of backyard poultry farming has risen in France, prompting a survey of 1,160 owners to understand their motivations and management practices.
- The primary reasons for keeping poultry included egg consumption, recycling waste, and companionship, with most owners primarily raising egg-layers.
- The findings revealed significant gaps in biosecurity practices among owners, alongside distinct flock profiles categorized by characteristics and motivations, such as urban and traditional poultry.
On-farm biosecurity can be assessed by analyzing patterns of practices to better tailor technical advice to producers. Given their close contact with environmental and wildlife disease reservoirs, free-range duck farms are exposed to multiple risk factors of pathogen exposure that are rare or absent in indoor production. The recurrent emergence of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) viruses in Southeast Asia and Europe has emphasized the importance of farm-level biosecurity on free-range duck farms.
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