Access to barrier perches improves behavior repertoire in broilers

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Ventura, Beth A ^a,d   Siewerdt, Frank ^a   Estevez, Inma ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b BASQUE FOUNDATION FOR SCIENCE   (Spain)

^c NEIKER and a Vaccine producing Commercial Company CZVSL   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGGRESSION; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL HOUSING; ANIMAL WELFARE; ANIMAL WELLBEING; APPETITE; ARTICLE; BROILER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; EATING HABIT; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; NONHUMAN; PERCH; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REARING; SITTING; ANIMAL; BEHAVIOR; CHICKEN; CONSTRUCTION WORK AND ARCHITECTURAL PHENOMENA; ENVIRONMENT; METHODOLOGY; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY;

AVES;

AGE FACTORS; AGGRESSION; ANIMALS; APPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; ARCHITECTURAL ACCESSIBILITY; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CHICKENS; ENVIRONMENT; HOUSING, ANIMAL; MOTOR ACTIVITY; POPULATION DENSITY; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84856388596     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0029826     Document Type: Article

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