Environmental enrichment helps our birds express their natural behaviours while supporting their health and wellbeing. Our Animal Welfare and Assurance teams have identified three practical, affordable and effective enrichment measures, which are being progressively introduced across our breeder and broiler farms.
Environmental enrichment helps our birds express their natural behaviours while supporting their health and wellbeing. At YoKuku, we incorporate practical enrichment measures that reduce stress, encourage activity and contribute to better welfare outcomes throughout our farming operations.
We provide perches and elevated resting structures that encourage movement, improve comfort and support healthy physical development. These enrichment features are carefully designed and maintained to promote natural behaviours in both broiler and breeder flocks.
Our farms include simple shelter structures that allow birds to rest, explore and feel secure within their environment. These features help reduce stress while supporting calmer and healthier flocks.
We provide pecking objects and interactive enrichment materials that encourage curiosity and natural pecking behaviour. By keeping birds engaged, these measures help reduce aggression and promote positive welfare throughout the flock.