Feather pecking in laying hens: new insights and directions for research?

By T. Rodenburg, Y. van Hierden, A. Buitenhuis, B. Riedstra, P. Koene, S. Korte, J. Van der Poel, T. Groothuis, H. Blokhuis. 2004

103 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Animal Science and Zoology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Small Animals

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1. L. Keeling
2. K. Hartcher
3. Bidda Jones

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1. L. Keeling

In Small Animals

1. K. Hartcher
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Citations in the corpus

• The prevention and control of feather pecking: application to commercial systems (2013, unknown): “This was a much higher estimate than that provided for 51 commercial flocks by Oden et al. (2002) who found 27% of birds performed GFP and 11.5% performed SFP. Rodenburg et al. (2004) studied 630 birds housed in experimental pens and found that, whilst most showed GFP at six weeks of age, only 2% sh”
• Why in earth? Dustbathing behaviour in jungle and domestic fowl reviewed from a Tinbergian and animal welfare perspective (2005, result): “…related to foraging behaviour is also supported by other work (Huber-Eicher & Wechsler, 1997; Bilcík & Keeling, 2000); however, a recently presented hypothesis suggests feather pecking being related to social exploration (Rodenburg et al., 2004) Is prevention of dustbathing stressful for the birds?”