Do double cages and access to occupational materials improve the welfare of farmed mink?

Animal Welfare

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 63-76

  Hansen, Steffen W ^a   Malmkvist, J ^a   Palme, R ^b   Damgaard, B M ^a  

^a DANISH INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

Author keywords

Animal welfare; Behaviour; Cage environment; Enrichment; Mustela vision; Space allowance

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL HOUSING; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMAL WELFARE; ARTICLE; CAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; FECES ANALYSIS; FECES LEVEL; FEMALE; MATING; MINK; NONHUMAN; SCORING SYSTEM; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL INTERACTION; STRAW; WILD ANIMAL;

ANIMALIA; MUSTELA; MUSTELA VISON;

EID: 33846988664     PISSN: 09627286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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