The push-door for measuring motivation in Hens: Laying hens are motivated to perch at night

Animal Welfare

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 11-19

  Olsson, I A S ^a   Keeling, L J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Animal welfare; Behaviour; Motivation; Perches; Poultry; Roosting

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEN; MEASUREMENT; MOTIVATION; NIGHT; NONHUMAN; TRAINING; TREE; WORK;

ANIMALIA; AVES; GALLUS; GALLUS GALLUS; PERCIDAE;

EID: 0036184909     PISSN: 09627286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0962728600024283     Document Type: Article

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