This book compares and contrasts alternative housing with conventional and traditional systems for commercial poultry (laying hens, meat chickens, turkeys, waterfowl and gamebirds) with regards to welfare, disease, health, nutrition, sustainability and genotype-environment interaction.

Contributions by: Ernest Froelich, David Pritchard, Steve Lister, Frieda Jorgensen, Daniel Guemene, Tom W Pennycott, Hans-Heinrich Thiele, Bas Rodenburg, Ingrid de Jong, Tracy Jones, Murdo MacLeod, Rudi Presinger, Michael C Appleby