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Dust bathing in laying hens: strain, proximity to, and number of conspecifics matter

As housing laying hens in aviaries becomes more common, understanding relationships between social context and performance of key behaviors, such as dust bathing (DB), is important. Expression of behaviors may be increased or repressed by the presence of conspecifics, and degree of behavioral synchr...

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Autores principales: Grebey, Tessa C., Ali, Ahmed B.A., Swanson, Janice C., Widowski, Tina M., Siegford, Janice M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7598005/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32867953
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.psj.2020.04.032