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Poultry Science, 2020 Despite previous research on the impacts of beak treatment on laying hens, little information exists regarding how variation in beak morphology that can occur following beak treatment affects production, behavior, and welfare.
Töry Shynkaruk +2 more
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Animals, 2022 Injurious pecking, commonly controlled by beak trimming (BT), is a widespread issue in laying hens associated with thwarted foraging. This controlled study compared the effect in intact and beak-trimmed pullets of providing pecking pans to eight ...
Christine Nicol, Claire Weeks
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Animals, 2019 Infrared beak treatment has less of a negative impact on laying hen welfare compared to other methods of beak treatment; however, it is still not fully understood how infrared beak treatment affects the beak tissue during the first few days post ...
Eugenia Herwig +2 more
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Poultry Science, 2022 : Controlling injurious pecking in commercial turkeys remains a significant challenge to producers and the industry. Infrared beak treatment is an effective method of controlling injurious pecking in chickens; however, the effects of infrared beak ...
Eugenia Herwig +2 more
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The About 100 Million Years Old Enigmatic “Beak Larva” Is a Weird Click Beetle Relative [PDF]
Insects“Beak larva” is a collective term for four fossil specimens from Kachin amber, which are holometabolan larvae with a forward-projecting beak. This arrangement is very unusual, and so far it has been unclear whether these specimens are larvae of beetles ...
Simon J. Linhart +4 more
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Genetic parameter estimation and molecular foundation of chicken beak shape
Poultry Science: The bird beak is mainly functioned as feeding and attacking, and its shape has extremely important significance for survival and reproduction. In chickens, since beak shape could lead to some disadvantages including pecking and waste of feed, it is ...
Run-Shen Jiang +2 more
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Frontiers in Physiology, 2023 The knob serves as both a sexual indicator of a goose’s maturity and a significant packaging attribute that garners consumer attention. However, studies regarding the morphological, anatomical and histological traits of different breeds and ages on the ...
Yang Zhang +8 more
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Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2023 A 2-year-old male budgerigar (Melopsittacus undulatus) died after a 1-day history of fracture of the rostral rhinotheca with pale mucous membranes, dyspnea, dull mentation, and ataxia.
Brittany L. Rasche +4 more
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Spatial predictive mapping using artificial neural networks [PDF]
The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2014 The modelling or prediction of complex geospatial phenomena (like formation of geo-hazards) is one of the most important tasks for geoscientists. But in practice it faces various difficulties, caused mainly by the complexity of relationships between the ...
S. Noack +4 more
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Fishes, 2022 This study aimed to explore the feasibility of using an upper beak microstructure to estimate the age of purpleback flying squid (Sthenoteuthis oualaniensis). From these microstructures, the age and growth of squid caught from January to March and May to
Ziyue Chen +4 more
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