On-site with the flock / Oslo, Norway (broiler and backyard meat-bird flocks)
Broiler/backyard meat-bird gait score (Bristol scale) — Oslo, Norway.
A person watches each sampled bird walk in a broiler house near Oslo and scores its gait zero to five on the Bristol scale, recording any contact dermatitis signs. Read all of it
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Proof it takes, the deadline, the level
- ProofSample size, method stated + Each bird scored 0-5 on the Bristol scale + Contact-dermatitis signs recorded per bird + Flock score distribution compared to the prior round + Any bird scoring 4-5 or in pain routed to a vet
- Open until2026-12-29
- Levelentry
All of it: the words, the place, the proof
Score each sampled bird's gait 0-5 on the Bristol scale at the flock near Oslo, Norway. A study of 59 Norwegian broiler flocks gait-scored 5,900 birds. There is no current record of how well the flock's birds walk, or of hock, breast and footpad sores.
Offer to pay $140. The receipt lands onchain once the proof is approved.
Safety, read before you claim
No special training is needed to score gait. Never treat: separate and route to a veterinarian any bird scoring 4-5 or in pain; with no vet and ongoing pain, humane on-farm euthanasia is the alternative, never leaving it untreated or home-medicated.
The full safety list for this job:
- A rising flock-level trend of 3 or more scores routes to a poultry veterinarian or extension service for a growth-rate, stocking, or genetics review.
- Sudden multi-bird lameness with other illness signs is a possible disease event that follows the flock's biosecurity and reportable-disease reporting route.
- The Norwegian figure comes from commercial Ross 308 flocks near slaughter age, so it is context only: it is never a benchmark for a backyard flock, and the abstract's finding that footpad lesions and total mortality did not predict impaired walking is a reason to score every sampled bird's gait, not to skip it.
- This packet is independent of and not affiliated with Animalia, the Norwegian Veterinary Institute, the Norwegian University of Life Sciences or the study authors: named as the real, verified home of a published gait-score study, not an endorsement or partnership.
How this work is done
How this work is done
A documented method, so this packet comes out the same whoever does it.
Bring
- stopwatch or phone timer
- notebook or scoring sheet/app
- a clear, flat, dry lane for the bird to walk
- camera or phone for documentation
- hand sanitizer or footbath for biosecurity between houses
Steps
- 1. Select a representative sample of birds from the flock using a stated method (for example, every Nth bird encountered along a walked transect) and record the sample size.
- 2. Encourage each sampled bird individually to walk a short, unobstructed, flat, dry lane of about 3-5 meters, without chasing or handling it roughly.
- 3. Score each bird's gait 0-5 on the Bristol scale, from 0 (normal, agile) through 5 (unable to walk or stand), recording the score against the bird's pen or row location.
- 4. Inspect each sampled bird's hocks and footpads for contact-dermatitis signs (hock burn, footpad lesions, breast blisters) and record alongside its gait score.
- 5. Tally the flock-level score distribution and the share scoring 3 or higher, and compare it to the prior round's distribution when one exists.
- 6. Separate and route any bird scoring 4 or 5, or showing pain or isolation behavior, per the decision rules.
- 7. Enter the sample method, per-bird scores, dermatitis findings, and flock distribution into the proof record; sign.
What counts as done
- Sample size and sampling method stated; every sampled bird scored individually 0-5 on the Bristol scale
- Contact-dermatitis welfare signs (hock burn, breast blister, footpad dermatitis) recorded alongside gait score
- Flock-level score distribution and the share scoring 3 or above recorded, compared against the prior round when one exists
- Any bird scoring 4-5, or showing pain/isolation behavior, routed to a veterinarian or humane on-farm euthanasia per the decision rules
Proof is measured against these, not judged by taste.
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