Providing broiler farms with elevated platforms is a good  practice  to  improve  bird  welfare.  These platforms help the birds to perform their natural resting behaviour on elevated areas, but also help to mitigate the occurrence of leg injuries resulting from rapid growth due to genetic selection. The rapid and massive growth of their breast and thighs causes them to  spend  long periods  of rest  and their inactivity increases even more with age.

Broilers are highly motivated to use platforms from the first week of life. Therefore, these platforms should be easily accessible to the birds at all stages of their growth. Elevated platforms not only provide additional locomotion possibilities for broilers, but are  also  known to  reduce  the  prevalence  and severity of lameness, foot pad dermatitis and hock burns.