Chapter 1 Opening Remarks

Chapter 2 The Ethogram of the Domesticated Hen

Chapter 3 To Adapt the Environment to the Bird or the Bird to the Environment?

Chapter 4 Some Considerations Regarding Optimum Environmental Conditions for Laying Hens in Cage Management

Chapter 5 Corticosteroids in Laying Hens

Chapter 6 The Regulation of Dustbathing and Other Behaviour Patterns in the Laying Hen: A Lorenzian Approach

Chapter 7 Essential Behavioural Needs

Chapter 8 The Assessment of Behavioural Needs

Chapter 9 Essential Behavioural Needs: The Mixed Motivation Approach

Chapter 10 Measurement of Essential and Behavioural Needs as Provided by Present Husbandry Systems: Battery, ‘Get-Away’ Cage, Aviary

Chapter 11 Putting Science into Practice

Chapter 12 The Pre-Laying Behaviour of Laying Hens in Cages with and without Laying Nests

Chapter 14 Moulting in the Domestic Hen (Gallus domesticus) and Its Use and Effect

Chapter 15 Cages: How could They be Improved?

Chapter 16 Closing Remarks