Laying hens selected for low mortality: Behaviour in tests of fearfulness, anxiety and cognition

Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Volumn 131, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 110-122

  Nordquist, Rebecca E ^a,c   Heerkens, Jasper L T ^a,b   Rodenburg, T Bas ^b   Boks, Sabine ^a   Ellen, Esther D ^b   van der Staay, F Josef ^a,c  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cannibalism; Chicken; Feather pecking; Genetic selection; Holeboard; Open field test; Voluntary approach test

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL WELFARE; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; CANNIBALISM; COGNITION; CONSPECIFIC; FEATHER; HERITABILITY; INJURY; LOCOMOTION; MEMORY; MORTALITY; POULTRY; TESTING METHOD; VOCALIZATION;

AVES; GALLUS GALLUS;

EID: 79953727521     PISSN: 01681591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.applanim.2011.02.008     Document Type: Article

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