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Opening Remarks.- Session I Current Knowledge of “Normal” Range of Behaviour and Physiology.- The Ethogram of the Domesticated Hen.- To Adapt the Environment to the Bird or the Bird to the Environment ?.- Some Considerations Regarding Optimum Environmental Conditions for Laying Hens in Cage Management.- Corticosteroids in Laying Hens.- Summary and Discussion.- Session II Behavioural and Physiological Needs.- The Regulation of Dustbathing and Other Behaviour Patterns in the Laying Hen: A Lorenzian Approach.- Essential Behavioural Needs.- The Assessment of Behavioural Needs.- Essential Behavioural Needs: The Mixed Motivation Approach.- Summary and Discussion.- Session III Measurement of Essential and Behavioural Needs as Provided by the Present Husbandry Systems.- Measurement of Essential and Behavioural Needs as Provided by Present Husbandry Systems: Battery, ‘Get-Away’ Cage, Aviary.- Putting Science into Practice.- The Pre-Laying Behaviour of Laying Hens in Cages with and Without Laying Nests.- Some System Definitions and Characteristics.- Moulting in the Domestic Hen (Gallus domesticus) and Its Use and Effect.- Cages: How Could They be Improved?.- Final Discussion.- Summary.- Closing Remarks.- List of Participants.