Classification of animal welfare on mink farms differs between three annual production periods
Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare
Keywords: animal welfare, labelling system, mink production, welfare assessment, welfare score, welfur
2016
Effects of environmental enrichment and stereotypic behavior on maternal behavior and infant viability in a model carnivore, the American mink (Neovison vison)
Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology
Keywords: animal welfare, captive breeding, infant mortality, mustelids
2016
Environmentally enriching American mink (Neovison vison) increases lymphoid organ weight and skeletal symmetry, and reveals differences between two sub-types of stereotypic behaviour
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: american mink, animal welfare, carnivores, corticosteroids, enrichment, fluctuating asymmetry, immune system, stereotypic behaviour
2016
Personality matters: Consistency of inter-individual variation in shyness-boldness across non-breeding and pre-breeding season despite a fall in general shyness levels in farmed American mink (Neovison vison)
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: american mink, animal personality, breeding season, intra-individual variation, motivation, shyness-boldness
2016
Weaning and separation stress: maternal motivation decreases with litter age and litter size in farmed mink
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: glucocorticoids, infrared thermography (irt), litter size, maternal behaviour, stress, weaning
2016
Early transfer of mated females into the maternity unit reduces stress and increases maternal care in farm mink
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: american mink, hpa axis, maternal behaviour, neovison vison aka mustela vison, nest building, reproduction, stress
2015
The reliability of welfare assessment according to the WelFur-protocol in the nursing period of mink (Neovison vison) is challenged by increasing welfare problems prior to weaning
Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare
Keywords: animal welfare, body condition score, diarrhoea, housing, injuries, mink production
2015
Bite marks in mink—Induced experimentally and as reflection of aggressive encounters between mink
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: aggression, group housing, mink, welfare indicator
2014
Additional foraging elements reduce abnormal behaviour – fur-chewing and stereotypic behaviour – in farmed mink (Neovison vison)
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: foraging, fur-chewing, neovison vison aka mustela vison, stereotypies, stress, welfare
2013
The causes of the low breeding success of european mink (Mustela lutreola) in captivity
Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology
Keywords: aggression, behavior, conservation, ex situ, mustelids
2013