Plumage damage in free-range laying hens: Behavioural characteristics in the rearing period and the effects of environmental enrichment and beak-trimming

• We examined the association between laying hen behaviour in rearing and adulthood. • We examined the use of behavioural tests in rearing to predict plumage damage. • Beak-trimming may affect the motivation for social reinstatement in pullets. • Beak-trimmed birds had superior plumage condition at...
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Autor*in:

Hartcher, Kate M. [verfasserIn]

Tran, Mary K.T.N.

Wilkinson, Stuart J.

Hemsworth, Paul H.

Thomson, Peter C.

Cronin, Greg M.

Format:

E-Artikel

Sprache:

Englisch

Erschienen:

2015

Schlagwörter:

Free-range

Feather-pecking

Laying hen

Open-field test

Plumage damage

Tonic immobility

Umfang:

9

Übergeordnetes Werk:

Enthalten in: The first record of a bryophyte in Upper Cretaceous amber from Taimyr, northern Siberia: Taimyrobryum martynoviorum gen. et sp. nov. (Bryopsida) - Ignatov, Michael S. ELSEVIER, 2016transfer abstract, an international scientific journal reporting on the application of ethology to animals used by man, Amsterdam [u.a.]

Übergeordnetes Werk:

volume:164 ; year:2015 ; pages:64-72 ; extent:9

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DOI / URN:

10.1016/j.applanim.2014.12.011

Katalog-ID:

ELV034435719

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