Broiler Chicken Behavior and Activity Are Affected by Novel Flooring Treatments.

The objective was to determine broiler chicken behavioral differences in response to novel flooring treatments. Broilers ( = 182) were housed in 14 pens (a random subset from a larger-scale study including 42 pens), with 13 birds/pen. One of seven flooring treatments were randomly allocated to 14 pens (2 pens per treatment).