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In the modern broiler industry, solutions are still being sought to improveconditions or eliminate problems related to issues such as animalwelfare, health, and meat quality brought by intensive production systems.Therefore, this experiment was conducted to study effects of perching ongrowth performance, carcass characteristics, and footpad lesions (FPLs) inbroiler chickens. A total of 300 broiler chicks (Ross 308) were distributedinto control and perch groups with three replicates including equal numbersof males and females. The perch group contained two single perches in each pen. Analysis of camera records revealed that on average 7.36 % of the birdsusing perches. Perch use did not have any effect on growth performance(P  >  0.05), but had a positive effect on FPLs (P  <  0.001).Carcass yield and proportions of carcass parts were not affected by perchavailability (P  >  0.05). Thigh and breast meat color was less yellow (P  <  0.005) in the perch group compared to the control group, where breast meat color was more red (P  <  0.01). Birds in the perch group had brighter breast meat (P  <  0.001). The weight of livers in the perch group waslower than in the control group (P  <  0.01). These findings suggest that perch use has positive effect on FPLs. Thereduction of redness in the breast could indicate that perch use may have apositive effect on breast inflammation. The potential positive effects of adapting perch use to intensiveconditions should be further investigated

Effects of perch availability on performance, carcass characteristics, and footpad lesions in broilers