Table 3.
Four main themes reflecting the practicality of environmental enrichment provision in Australian intensive livestock industries and industry-specific quotations
| Practical consideration | Quotations from industry survey | Industry |
|---|---|---|
| Waste disposal method | “Foreign objects entering the litter stream at clean out time” | Chicken meat |
| “Sand couldn’t be composted” | Chicken meat | |
| “Won’t work with effluent system” | Pork | |
| Biosecurity standards | “Difficult to clean between batches [of birds]” | Chicken meat |
| “Not practical as mites penetrate wood” | Egg | |
| Obligatory management practices | “.…. impractical with very large broiler sheds – distributing and re-distributing for pickup” | Chicken meat |
| “risk for feed in crop at processing” | Chicken meat | |
| “may get floor eggs” | Egg | |
| “risk of unbalancing diet and risk of under-consuming anti-coccoidal medications” | Chicken meat | |
| “Block slats….” | Pork | |
| Accessibility | “Access to this substrate is a problem” | Chicken meat |
| “Rice hulls are increasingly difficult to source” | Pork |