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Preening cups increase apparent wet preening behaviors, but have no impact on other behaviors, body condition, growth, or body morphometrics of grow-out Pekin ducks
Preening cups may be a form of open water that would allow ducks to express preening behaviors. We set out to test the hypothesis that preening cups would not have detrimental effects on ducks or their environment. Control pens (N = 6, 65 ducks/pen) had nipple lines while experimental pens (N = 6, 6...
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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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Elsevier
2023
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10587528/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37844528 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.psj.2023.103145 |