The impact of infrared beak treatment on turkey tom and hen beak length and performance to 12 weeks of age [PDF]
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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Understanding How Infrared Beak Treatment Affects the Beak Tissue and the Healing Response of Brown and White Feathered Layer Pullets [PDF]
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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Effects of beak-treatment styles on beak morphology and production performance of layer chicks aged 0–8 weeks [PDF]
Frontiers in Veterinary ScienceIntroductionDouble-infrared (IR-D) and laser energy sources (LAS) are two types of newly beak treatment equipment. Although the IR-D and LAS techniques have been developed by changing the number and type of energy sources, their effects on layer chicks ...
Lin Duan +8 more
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The effect of infrared beak treatment on the welfare of turkeys reared to 12 weeks of age [PDF]
Poultry Science, 2022 : This study aimed to determine the effects of infrared beak treatment on the behavior and welfare of male and female turkeys reared to 12 wk of age. To do this, poults (236 males and 324 females) were assigned to one of 2 beak treatments: infrared beak ...
S. Struthers +7 more
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Welfare and Performance of Three Turkey Breeds—Comparison between Infrared Beak Treatment and Natural Beak Abrasion by Pecking on a Screed Grinding Wheel [PDF]
Animals, 2021 Feather pecking and cannibalism are behavioral disorders that cause animal-welfare-relevant and economic problems. To mitigate these problems, the beaks of conventionally reared turkeys are usually already trimmed in the hatcheries.
Stefanie Grün +6 more
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Specialized beak blunting feeders and their potential as an alternative to current beak treatment methods in leghorn pullets [PDF]
Journal of Applied Poultry Research, 2022 SUMMARY: There is pressure to ban the practice of using beak treatment in laying hens and with this comes the need to find viable alternatives.
S. Struthers +6 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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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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Poultry Science, 2019 Infrared beak treatment (IRBT) results in a change in beak shape; however, it is unclear what effect variations in post-treatment beak shape have on young pullets. Additionally, the impact of sloughing of the treated beak tissue is not fully understood.
K Schwean-Lardner, S Struthers
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Biomechanical investigation of spinal cord stress changes following ACAF for different subtypes of cervical OPLL [PDF]
Scientific ReportsTo investigate the effect of the Anterior Controllable Antedisplacement and Fusion (ACAF) procedure on stress within the spinal cord, nerve roots, and dura mater for different subtypes of cervical ossification of the posterior longitudinal ligament (C ...
Xiao Zhang +7 more
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