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Research Note: Injurious pecking in fattening turkeys (Meleagris gallopavo f. dom.)—video analyses of triggering factors and behavioral sequences in small flocks of male turkeys

Injurious pecking is one of the main welfare issues in fattening turkey husbandry. Birds pecked by conspecifics can suffer from serious injuries that may even lead to the death of the victimized animals or require their culling. In the present study, the behavior of male turkeys was documented day a...

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Autores principales: Bartels, T., Stuhrmann, R.A., Krause, E.T., Schrader, L.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7704993/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33248548
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.psj.2020.09.016