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Astroturf as a dustbathing substrate for laying hens

Authors: Gina M. Alvino, Cassandra B. Tucker, Gregory S. Archer, Joy A. Mench

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: astroturf, dustbathe, furnished cage, hen, sand, welfare

2013

Hens are motivated to dustbathe in peat irrespective of being reared with or without a suitable dustbathing substrate

Authors: A. Wichman, L. J. Keeling

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: behavioral need, behavioural need, domestic chicken, dustbathing, gallus gallus domesticus, push-door, rearing, welfare

2008

What’s in a peck? Using fixed action pattern morphology to identify the motivational basis of abnormal feather-pecking behaviour

Authors: L. M. Dixon, I. J. H. Duncan, G. Mason

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: chicken, dustbathing, feather pecking, fixed action patterns, foraging, gallus gallus, motivation, welfare

2008

Why in earth? Dustbathing behaviour in jungle and domestic fowl reviewed from a Tinbergian and animal welfare perspective

Authors: I. Anna S. Olsson, Linda J. Keeling

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: behaviour, causation, chicken, dustbathing, function, hen, ontogeny, phylogeny, poultry, welfare

2005

Why do hens sham dustbathe when they have litter

Authors: I.Anna S Olsson, Linda J Keeling, Ian J.H Duncan

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: animal welfare, behaviour, dustbathing, motivation, poultry, stimulus

2002

Regulation of dustbathing in feathered and featherless domestic chicks: the Lorenzian model revisited

Authors: Klaus S. Vestergaard, Birgitte I. Damm, Ursula K. Abbott, Mogens BildsøE

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: domestic chicks, dustbathing, lorenz, lorenzian model, lorenzian regulation

1999

Effects of long-term deprivation of sand on dustbathing behaviour in laying hens

Authors: Diederik W. van Liere, Piet R. Wiepkema

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: chickens, deprivation, dustbathing

1992

Battery hens name their price: Consumer demand theory and the measurement of ethological `needs’

Authors: Marian Stamp Dawkins

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: chickens, ethological needs

1983

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