Feather pecking in groups of growing bantams in relation to floor litter substrate and plumage colour

British Poultry Science

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 565-572

  Savory, C J ^a,b   Mann, J S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b SCOTTISH AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL HOUSING; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CANNIBALISM; CHICKEN; FEATHER; FECES; FEMALE; MALE; PIGMENTATION; POLLUTION;

AGGRESSION; ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; CANNIBALISM; CHICKENS; FEATHERS; FECES; FEMALE; HOUSING, ANIMAL; MALE; PIGMENTATION; WASTE PRODUCTS;

EID: 0033249855     PISSN: 00071668     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00071669986918     Document Type: Article

References (27)

1. APPLEBY, M.C., HUGHES, B.O. & HOGARTH, G.S. (1989) Behaviour of hens in a deep litter house. British Poultry Science, 30: 545-553.
2. BAREHAM, J.R. (1972) Effects of cages and semi-intensive deep litter pens on the behaviour, adrenal response and production in two strains of laying hens. British Veterinary Journal, 128: 153-162.
3. BEARSE, G.E., BERG, L.R., MCCLARY, C.F. & MILLER, V.L. (1949) The effect of pelleting chicken rations on the incidence of cannibalism. Poultry Science 28: 756.
4. BLOKHUIS, H.J. (1986) Feather-pecking in poultry: its relationwith ground-pecking. Applied Animal Behaviour Science, 16: 63-67.
5. BLOKHUIS, H.J. & ARKES, J.G. (1984) Some observations on the development of feather-pecking in poultry. Applied Animal Behaviour Science, 12: 145-157.
6. CALET, C. (1965) The relative value of pellets vs mash and grain in poultry nutrition. World's Poultry Science Journal, 21: 23-52.
7. COCHRAN, W.G. & COX, G.M. (1957) Experimental Designs (New York, John Wiley and Sons).
8. GRIFFITHS, J.D. (1966) Feather pecking in poultry: a behavioural approach to understanding the dynamics of the behaviour. MSc. Thesis, University of Edinburgh.
9. HANSEN, I. & BRAASTAD, B.O. (1994) Effect of rearing density on pecking behaviour and plumage condition of laying hens in two types of aviary. Applied Animal Behaviour Science 40: 263-272.
10. HOFFMEYER, I. (1969) Feather pecking in pheasants - an ethological approach to the problem. Danish Review of Game Biology, 6: 1-36.
11. HUBER-EICHER, B. & WECHSLER, B. (1998) The effect of quality and availability of foraging materials on feather pecking in laying hen chicks. Animal Behaviour, 55: 861-873.
12. HUGHES, B.O. & DUNCAN, I.J.H. (1972). The influence of strain and environmental factors upon feather pecking and cannibalism in fowls. British Poultry Science, 13: 525-547.
13. HUTSON, L.R. (1978) Pica in eight-week-old chicken broilers. Veterinary Record, 103: 186-187.
14. KEELING, L. (1995) Feather pecking and cannibalism in layers. Poultry International, 34: 46-50.
15. KJAER, J.B. & VESTERGAARD, K.S. (1999) Development of feather pecking in relation to light intensity. Applied Animal Behaviour Science, 62: 243-254.
16. MCKEEGAN, D.E.F. & SAVORY, C.J. (1999) Feather eating in commercial layer pullets and its putative role in the aetiology of pecking damage. Applied Animal Behaviour Science, 65: 73-85.
17. NUBOER, J. (1993) Visual ecology in poultry houses, in: SAVORY, C.J. & HUGHES, B.O. (Eds) Proceedings of the 4th European Symposium on Poultry Welfare, pp. 39-44 (Potters Bar, Universities Federation for Animal Welfare).
18. PETHERICK, J.C. & DUNCAN, I.J.H. (1989) Behaviour of young domestic fowl directed towards different substrates. British Poultry Science, 30: 229-238.
19. SAVORY, C.J. & MANN, J.S. (1997) Behavioural development in groups of pen-housed pullets in relation to genetic strain, age and food form. British Poultry Science, 38: 38-47.
20. SCHWARTE, L.H. (1959) Vicious habits and miscellaneous conditions, in: BIESTER, H.J. & SCHWARTE, L.H. (Eds) Diseases of Poultry, pp. 942-946 (Ames, Iowa State University Press).
21. SLATER, P.J.B. (1978) Data collection, in: COLGAN, P.W. Arnes, (Ed.) Quantitative Ethology, pp. 7-24 (New York, Wiley).
22. THOMSON, K.S. (1997) Feather pecking in bantams. B.Sc. Thesis, University of Edinburgh.
23. VESTERGAARD, K.S. & LISBORG, L. (1993) A model of feather pecking development which relates to dustbathing in the fowl. Behaviour, 126: 291-308.
24. VESTERGAARD, K.S., KRUIJT, J.P. & HOGAN, J.A. (1993) Feather pecking and chronic fear in groups of red junglefowl: their relations to dustbathing, rearing environment and social status. Animal Behaviour, 45: 1127-1140.
25. WENNRICH, G. (1975) Ethological studies of domestic chickens (Gallus domesticus) of different hybrid origin in floor management with special reference to aggressive behaviour as well as feather pecking and cannibalism. Archiv für Geflugelkunde, 39: 37-44.
26. WHITEHEAD, C.C. & BANNISTER, D.W. (1980) Biotin status, blood pyruvate carboxylase (EC 6.4.1.1) activity and performance in broilers under different conditions of bird husbandry and diet processing. British Journal of Nutrition, 43: 541-549.
27. WOOD-GUSH, D.G.M. & ROWLAND, C.G. (1973) Allopreening in the domestic fowl. Revue Comportement Animal, 7: 83-91.