The effect of quality and availability of foraging materials on feather pecking in laying hen chicks
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The hypothesis that feather pecking and foraging behavior are inversely related in laying hen chicks was investigated. Findings showed that both the quality and presence of the foraging materials had a substantial impact on foraging behavior and a substantial but opposite impact on feather pecking. Focal animal observations revealed that the chicks had different kinds of foraging behavior at polystyrene blocks and beads. Feather pecking may therefore be regarded as redirected foraging behavior.
Publication Name: Animal Behaviour
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0003-3472
Year: 1998
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Regulation of dustbathing in feathered and featherless domestic chicks: The Lorenzian model revisited
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Dustbathing in featherless and feathered chicks was examined, and dustbathing was found to increase with time, with a compensatory adjustment, in both featherless and feathered chicks. It is suggested that the amount of dustbathing may be controlled by the cooperative action of a deprivation or timer mechanism and a counter mechanism. Lorenz's psycohydraulic model may be valid for other comfort behaviors as well as for dustbathing in fowl.
Publication Name: Animal Behaviour
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0003-3472
Year: 1999
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Feather pecking in domestic chicks: its relation to dustbathing and foraging
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A study was conducted on 42 groups of 30 laying hen chicks to determine the effects of feather pecking on foraging and dustbathing. Results show that chicks who had earlier access to sand as a dustbathing substrate exhibit lower feather pecking rates and that feather pecking is influenced by foraging activity. Results also reveal that feather pecking is minimized in housing conditions conducive to foraging.
Publication Name: Animal Behaviour
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0003-3472
Year: 1997
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