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Database research record2012·United Kingdom (London)

Backyard chicken keeping in the Greater London Urban Area: welfare status, biosecurity and disease control issues

I. Karabozhilova, Barbara Wieland, Silvia Alonso, Laura Salonen, Barbara Häsler

British Poultry Science

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A 2010 questionnaire survey of 30 backyard chicken flock-keepers in the Greater London Urban Area found that while chickens generally had conditions for natural behaviors, most owners did not comply with regulations on catering waste feeding. Disease prevention measures were rare, and a lack of avian and zoonotic disease knowledge among owners was observed, indicating implications for disease control.