Hendrix Genetics is one of 20 participating companies contributing to the ChickenStress European Training Network.  The project is intended to train future scientists in integrating management, environmental control, feeding, and maintenance of flock health.  Fourteen students will be pursuing doctoral-level research at twelve institutions on multidisciplinary projects. The ChickenStress project will attempt to determine how stress is regulated and how management and environmental factors can reduce stress. A subsidiary project includes evaluation of the effect of environmental conditions on free-range laying flocks.  An attempt will be made to determine how neurobiological markers can be applied to limit stress and to be used as a factor in index selection.

Since the ChickenStress project is long-term, periodic reports will be provided by Hendrix Genetics, although it will be sometime before specific recommendations can be applied.