Providing ‘get-away bunks’ and other enrichments to primiparous adult female mink improves their reproductive productivity

This study investigated whether simple, cheap enrichments – ‘get-away bunks’ (a wire mesh semi-cylinder attached to the cage ceiling) and small manipulable objects (balls and suspended chewing items) – could improve welfare and productivity in nursing mink dams (Neovison vison) in commercial farm conditions in southern Ontario (Canada). Experiment 1 replicated a study conducted the […]