Feather pecking in domestic chicks: Its relation to dustbathing and foraging

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 757-768

  Huber Eicher, Beat ^a,b   Wechsler, Beat ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b Zoologisches Institut   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHICK; DOMESTIC HEN; DUSTBATHING; FEATHER PECKING; FORAGING;

GALLUS GALLUS; GALLUS GALLUS DOMESTICUS;

EID: 0030784553     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1996.0506     Document Type: Article

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