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Rabbits, Rabbits, Rabbits: Pet Rabbit Record Book
EDIS, 2020 Pet rabbits are chosen primarily for their temperment, more so than for their looks. They are generally calm animals that can be easily handled and cared for.
Joy C. Jordan +5 more
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Rabbits, Rabbits, Rabbits: Show Rabbit Record Book
EDIS, 2014 The 4-H Show Rabbit project focuses on all the aspects of showing rabbits according to the American Rabbit Breeders Association (ARBA) show guidelines, showmanship skills, and breed Standards of Perfection.
Joy C. Jordan +5 more
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Rabbits, Rabbits, Rabbits, Member Manual
EDIS, 1990 Rabbits, Rabbits, Rabbits: Member's Manual (4H RAM 10) is an animal sciences publication suggested for 4-H members ages 9 and up. The purpose of the 4-H rabbit project is to teach members proper ways to feed, manage and show rabbits.
Norman Young
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Peer Community Journal, 2023 Cage-free housing is increasingly chosen in Europe, North America, and Australia as an animal-welfare friendly farm system for laying hens. However, hens are kept in large numbers in those systems which makes checking for health and welfare difficult and
Gebhardt-Henrich, Sabine G. +3 more
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Similarity in Temporal Movement Patterns in Laying Hens Increases with Time and Social Association
Animals, 2022 We explored the relationship between social associations and individual activity patterns in domestic hens. Out of 1420 laying hens, 421 hens were equipped with RFID tags attached to RFID-specific leg bands (leg bands from Company Roxan, Selkirk ...
Yamenah Gómez +7 more
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Sensors, 2022 Tracking technologies offer a way to monitor movement of many individuals over long time periods with minimal disturbances and could become a helpful tool for a variety of uses in animal agriculture, including health monitoring or selection of breeding ...
Camille Marie Montalcini +4 more
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Skeletal variation in bird domestication: limb proportions and sternum in chicken, with comparisons to mallard ducks and Muscovy ducks [PDF]
PeerJ, 2022 Background Domestication, including selective breeding, can lead to morphological changes of biomechanical relevance. In birds, limb proportions and sternum characteristics are of great importance and have been studied in the past for their relation with
Carlos Manuel Herrera-Castillo +6 more
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Perch Positioning Affects both Laying Hen Locomotion and Forces Experienced at the Keel
Animals, 2020 The aim of this study was to assess the effect of perch positioning on laying hens’ locomotion and the resulting energy experienced at the keel. Twenty Nick Chick and 20 Brown Nick hens were trained to transition from a platform to a perch in several ...
Christina Rufener +3 more
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Animals, 2021 Group level measures of welfare flocks have been criticized on the grounds that they give only average measures and overlook the welfare of individual animals. However, we here show that the group-level optical flow patterns made by broiler flocks can be
Sabine G. Gebhardt-Henrich +2 more
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Detection of polymorphisms and protein domain architectures in rabbit toll-like receptor 2
World Rabbit Science, 2014 Toll-like receptors (TLRs) recognise pathogen-associated molecular patterns (PAMPs) derived from pathogens and participate in activation of the immune responses. The TLR2 gene can recognise PAMPs specific to bacterial diseases such as pneumonia.
Zhang X. Y. +9 more
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