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Ökologischer Betrieb
© BLE, Bonn/Thomas Stephan
Ökologischer Betrieb
Institute of

BW Farm Economics

Project

Broiler production systems



Production systems broiler chicken
© Thünen-Institut/Petra Thobe
Production systems broiler chicken

Economic assessment of different production system intensities for broilers

Calculating the profits per bird and for the enterprise on the whole, as well as the labour income in free range and organic production systems compared with conventional broiler production

Preliminary Results

1. Large cost differences between the systems correspond to the different sales prices

2. The labour incomes earned in conventional production were impossible to obtain in the alternative systems

Duration

Permanent task 4.1999

More Information

Project status: ongoing

Publications to the project

  1. 0

    Thobe P, Spindler B, Schierhold S, Pruisken H (2021) Mehr Einsatz für Tierwohl : Wie viel kostet die Umsetzung tier- und umweltgerechter Maßnahmen in der Masthühnerhaltung? In: Geflügeljahrbuch 2022 : Nachhaltige Geflügelerzeugung. Stuttgart: Ulmer, pp 24-33

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