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Effects of edible environmental enrichments during the rearing and laying periods in a littered aviary—Part 1: integument condition in pullets and laying hens

Severe feather pecking is a damaging allopecking behavior in pullets and laying hens which was found to be associated with multiple factors. The aim of this study was to investigate whether the occurrence of feather pecking could be reduced by additional environmental enrichment materials (EM; pecki...

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Autores principales: Schreiter, Ruben, Damme, Klaus, Klunker, Michael, Raoult, Camille, von Borell, Eberhard, Freick, Markus
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7647713/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33142434
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.psj.2020.07.013