What’s in a peck? Using fixed action pattern morphology to identify the motivational basis of abnormal feather-pecking behaviour
Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour
Keywords: chicken, dustbathing, feather pecking, fixed action patterns, foraging, gallus gallus, motivation, welfare
2008
The preferences of laying hens for perforated Astroturf over conventional wire as a dustbathing substrate in furnished cages
Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare
Keywords: animal welfare, astroturf, dustbathing, laying hen, novel flooring
2006
The effects of novel floorings on dustbathing, pecking and scratching behaviour of caged hens
Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare
Keywords: animal welfare, dustbathing, laying hens, novel flooring, pecking, scratching
2005
Why in earth? Dustbathing behaviour in jungle and domestic fowl reviewed from a Tinbergian and animal welfare perspective
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: behaviour, causation, chicken, dustbathing, function, hen, ontogeny, phylogeny, poultry, welfare
2005
Feather pecking in laying hens: new insights and directions for research?
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: coping strategies, feather pecking, genetics, laying hens
2004
Why do hens sham dustbathe when they have litter
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: animal welfare, behaviour, dustbathing, motivation, poultry, stimulus
2002
Influence of prior exposure to wood shavings on feather pecking, dustbathing and foraging in adult laying hens
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: chicken, dustbathing, feather pecking, foraging, rearing, substrate
2001
Regulation of dustbathing in feathered and featherless domestic chicks: the Lorenzian model revisited
Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour
Keywords: domestic chicks, dustbathing, lorenz, lorenzian model, lorenzian regulation
1999
Feather pecking in domestic chicks: its relation to dustbathing and foraging
Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour
Keywords: domestic chicks, dustbathing, feather pecking, foraging
1997
Stress as a state of motivational systems
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: coping, dustbathing, feedback, nest building, stress indicators
1997