10Substrate for pecking and foraging

10 Substrate for pecking and foraging

10 Substrate for pecking and foraging

(1) A person must not confine laying fowl in a furnished cage unless the person provides the fowl with pecking substrate in a way that allows the fowl to engage in pecking and foraging behaviours in the substrate.

Examples of ways of providing pecking substrate that allow fowl to engage in pecking or foraging behaviours—

putting the pecking substrate in a device that hangs from the roof or is attached to the inside wall of the cage and is within reach of the fowl or on the surface of a scratch area provided for the fowl under section 9

Maximum penalty—

(a) for an individual—50 penalty units, or

(b) otherwise—200 penalty units.

(2) In this section—

pecking substrate means loose or friable organic matter in which fowl may engage in pecking and foraging behaviours.

Examples of pecking substrate—

feed pellets, wood shavings, rice hulls, chopped straw and grass