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 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 13 Some System Definitions and Characteristics

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