{"id":2119,"date":"2017-11-01T15:45:11","date_gmt":"2017-11-01T14:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/awecadvisors.org\/hennovation-guidelines-end-of-lay\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T18:02:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T17:02:12","slug":"hennovation-guidelines-end-of-lay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/awecadvisors.org\/en\/farm-animals\/hennovation-guidelines-end-of-lay\/","title":{"rendered":"Hennovation guidelines: End-of-Lay"},"content":{"rendered":"

D\u00e9borah Temple, Claire Weeks, Thea van Niekerk, Xavier Manteca<\/strong><\/p>\n

Download PDF Guidelines on End of Lay here<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Towards the end of the laying period (EoL), the hens are either removed from the laying houses and taken to the slaughterhouse for human consumption or slaughtered on site and destroyed. The end of the laying period consists of the latter transport of the spent hens to the slaughterhouse, from the time they are caught to the time they are slaughtered, including the preparation and planning of the transport. The spent hens are transported from the farm to the slaughterhouse, which involves catching the hens at the farm, loading them onto the truck, transporting them and finally unloading them once they arrive at the slaughterhouse, where they are slaughtered. During all these stages, hens can suffer from hunger, heat stress, pain and anxiety. For this reason, certain measures have to be taken to reduce stress at all stages of the process in order to maintain satisfactory welfare levels.<\/p>\n<\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Towards the end of the laying period the hens are either removed from the building to be slaughtered for human consumption or are killed within the building and sent for destruction. End of lay (EoL) addresses this last transport of the hens to the slaughterhouse, from the moment of catching until the moment of slaughter and also includes preparation and planning for this event. EoL birds are transported from the farm to slaughterhouse which entails catching the birds at the farm, loading them into the truck, transport and finally unloading them once at the slaughterhouse to be dispatched. During all these steps, if no preventive measures are taken, spent hens can suffer from hunger, thermal stress, pain and anxiety. Thus measures should be taken to reduce stress at all points of the process in order to maintain satisfactory levels of welfare.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2122,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[131],"tags":[63],"class_list":["post-2119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-farm-animals","tag-farm-animals"],"yoast_head":"\nHennovation guidelines: End-of-Lay - Awec<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/awecadvisors.org\/en\/farm-animals\/hennovation-guidelines-end-of-lay\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Hennovation guidelines: End-of-Lay - Awec\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Towards the end of the laying period the hens are either removed from the building to be slaughtered for human consumption or are killed within the building and sent for destruction. 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