Canopy cover is correlated with reduced injurious feather pecking in commercial flocks of free-range laying hens

Animal Welfare

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 329-338

  Bright, A ^a   Brass, D ^b   Clachan, J ^c   Drake, K A ^d   Joret, A D ^e  

^a FAI FARMS LTD   (United Kingdom)

^b Meg Bank   (United Kingdom)

^c McDonald's Restaurants Limited   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^e Noble Foods Ltd   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Animal welfare; Canopy cover; Free range; Injurious feather pecking; Laying hens; Range cover

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ARTICLE; CANOPY; EGG LAYING; FEATHER PECKING; FEMALE; HEN; NONHUMAN;

ANIMALIA; GALLUS GALLUS;

EID: 79960854128     PISSN: 09627286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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