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Environmental Complexity: Additional Human Visual Contact Reduced Meat Chickens’ Fear of Humans and Physical Items Altered Pecking Behavior
SIMPLE SUMMARY: Environmental complexity can improve chicken welfare. However, the outcome of such environmental changes will depend on the resources provided. We provided either various physical items that posed no biosecurity risk and were inexpensive (such as balls, chains, a perch and rope) to a...
Autores principales: | Taylor, Peta S., Hemsworth, Paul H., Rault, Jean-Loup |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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MDPI
2022
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8833824/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35158634 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ani12030310 |
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