Climate Change and the Poultry Industries...
Climate change affects the broilers process a great deal economically and environmentally. The Economic problems can be keeping the chickens in the right temperatures because for the first 4–7 days of a broiler’s life, broiler chicks cannot maintain a stable core body temperature so they need to buy fans or heaters which changes the economic costs. The environmental problems are such as the different temperatures the chicken faces in climate change which can cause it heat stress if the temperatures are too hot.
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Natural hazards such as storms or cyclones can also put the chickens under trauma which can kill the chicken. There are ways you can avoid this trauma such as looking at the structure of the building and adding heaters for the winter and fans for the summer. This way the chickens will be experiencing the temperatures they need to be experiencing. The only problem about this is it increases the economic cost.
In the process of producing broilers there are many careersinvolved such as poultry hands, hatchery attendants, farmers, truck drivers. Factory workers and retail workers. Poultry hands care and insure a hygienic environment, handling and identifying chickens and handling equipment. The farmers help the chickens grow healthy and make sure they don’t get traumatised by weather, predators or illness. The truck drivers drive the chickens from the farm to the factory where they are kept until slaughtered, then from factory to retailers. Factory workers process the chickens by slaughter, de-feathering, preparation and packaging. Retail workers prepare the meat to be purchased such as cooked by a chef or fast food chair or sold raw by a butcher.
~ Jake
In the process of producing broilers there are many careersinvolved such as poultry hands, hatchery attendants, farmers, truck drivers. Factory workers and retail workers. Poultry hands care and insure a hygienic environment, handling and identifying chickens and handling equipment. The farmers help the chickens grow healthy and make sure they don’t get traumatised by weather, predators or illness. The truck drivers drive the chickens from the farm to the factory where they are kept until slaughtered, then from factory to retailers. Factory workers process the chickens by slaughter, de-feathering, preparation and packaging. Retail workers prepare the meat to be purchased such as cooked by a chef or fast food chair or sold raw by a butcher.
~ Jake
What is climate change?
Weather alteration is when the regular long-term climate patterns of a county are changed for a lengthy period of time, naturally they’re usually decades or longer. Instances include moves in wind changes, the normal temperature or the quantity of precipitation. These devastations can disturb one region, and many other regions or even the entire planet. Emus Climate change is very devastating for other bird species but not really emus. Emus are animals that can adjust to certain climate conditions such as snow, rain, and heat. Of course we know that they can’t fly so if there is a flood then they will possibly die. Emus are classified as birds which roam the desert plains, snow plains any really. They can repopulate in any climate and are able to withstand whopping temperatures. |
Ostriches
Ostriches onthe other hand cannot cope that well in snowy or cold conditions, because they are mostly used to hot climates and regions (Africa). They are able to withstand cold weather but it does affect the production side of farming. Ostriches like to live in groups up to 5-50 or even sometimes by themselves because they are happy either way.
Specialists have high sureness that worldwide temperatures will rise for periods to come, mainly due to greenhouse gases made by human actions. The International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which contains more than 1,300 geniuses from the United States and other countries, predict a temperature rise of 2.5 to 10 degrees Fahrenheit over the following era. The weather will impact farms with storms that have been made by the gasses produced by mankind. The Storms will then affect Ratites or other animals that are farmed. Climate change will never stop in today’s society so this is why animals and most farms usually loose population of its investments (animals, crops and even buildings).
Fact. 600-900 land bird species have been extinct because of climate change
Is the problem taken seriously?
No the problem has not been taken seriously because factory’s green houses are still being manufactured and more pollution each day has been occurring because of this. In my opinion there needs to be a hold in mankind pollution but it never stops, because people are more interested in money than the environment.
Challenges for Climate Change
In my opinion farmers need to keep putting up with it and to try their best to stop the climate change. (Moving animals to safer locations). Or even trying to stop the manmade facility’s that produce pollution creating the unusual weather instances.
~ Nathanael
Ostriches onthe other hand cannot cope that well in snowy or cold conditions, because they are mostly used to hot climates and regions (Africa). They are able to withstand cold weather but it does affect the production side of farming. Ostriches like to live in groups up to 5-50 or even sometimes by themselves because they are happy either way.
Specialists have high sureness that worldwide temperatures will rise for periods to come, mainly due to greenhouse gases made by human actions. The International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which contains more than 1,300 geniuses from the United States and other countries, predict a temperature rise of 2.5 to 10 degrees Fahrenheit over the following era. The weather will impact farms with storms that have been made by the gasses produced by mankind. The Storms will then affect Ratites or other animals that are farmed. Climate change will never stop in today’s society so this is why animals and most farms usually loose population of its investments (animals, crops and even buildings).
Fact. 600-900 land bird species have been extinct because of climate change
Is the problem taken seriously?
No the problem has not been taken seriously because factory’s green houses are still being manufactured and more pollution each day has been occurring because of this. In my opinion there needs to be a hold in mankind pollution but it never stops, because people are more interested in money than the environment.
Challenges for Climate Change
In my opinion farmers need to keep putting up with it and to try their best to stop the climate change. (Moving animals to safer locations). Or even trying to stop the manmade facility’s that produce pollution creating the unusual weather instances.
~ Nathanael
For the most part, climate change doesn’t affect factory farmed chickens as the sheds they are kept in have strictly controlled climate however the feed they eat and non-factory farmed chickens are. Chicks bred in non-climate controlled are at the biggest risk as increased temperature may make some chicks hatch earlier than others and have an advantage over the other chicks and higher temperatures can overheat and kill chicks (jones, 2016). Climate change also affects how disease affects chickens. Cooler temperatures will increase the infectivity of dangerous diseases like avian influenza and allow other diseases to last longer on feed during transportation and in sheds after animals have been culled or harvested. Cooler temperatures will make chickens huddle closer together further increasing infection chances (thepoultrysite, 2017). Despite this, chickens may find a way to adapt, especially with help from humans. They have been domesticated for longer than any other animal and have adapted multiple times in the past (permaculturevisions, 2016). There is not much farmers can do about climate change due to the large scale and nature of the issue unless many people work together.
~ Aidyn
~ Aidyn