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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, John Berezowski, Yandy Abreu Jorge, Sabine G. Gebhardt-Henrich, Sabine Vögeli, Ariane Stratmann, Michael Jeffrey Toscano, Bernhard Voelkl   +7 more
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Susceptibility of rabbits to SARS-CoV-2

bioRxiv, 2020
Transmission of severe acute respiratory coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) between livestock and humans is a potential public health concern. We demonstrate the susceptibility of rabbits to SARS-CoV-2, which excrete infectious virus from the nose and throat ...
A. Mykytyn, M. Lamers, Nisreen M. A. Okba, T. I. Breugem, D. Schipper, Petra B. van den Doel, P. van Run, G. van Amerongen, L. Waal, M. Koopmans, K. Stittelaar, J. V. D. van den Brand, B. Haagmans   +12 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, Ana K. Rentsch, Ariane Stratmann, Michael J. Toscano   +3 more
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Evaluation of an Active LF Tracking System and Data Processing Methods for Livestock Precision Farming in the Poultry Sector

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, Bernhard Voelkl, Yamenah Gómez, Michael Gantner, Michael J. Toscano   +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, Madeleine Geiger, Daniel Núñez-León, Hiroshi Nagashima, Sabine Gebhardt-Henrich, Michael Toscano, Marcelo R. Sanchez-Villagra   +6 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., Lei M., Xie L., Zhang C. X., Zheng J., Yang C., Deng X. D., Li J. L., Huang D. P., Xie X. H.   +9 more
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Groups and Individuals: Optical Flow Patterns of Broiler Chicken Flocks Are Correlated with the Behavior of Individual Birds

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, Ariane Stratmann, Marian Stamp Dawkins   +2 more
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Limited Associations between Keel Bone Damage and Bone Properties Measured with Computer Tomography, Three-Point Bending Test, and Analysis of Minerals in Swiss Laying Hens

Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2017
Keel bone damage is a wide-spread welfare problem in laying hens. It is unclear so far whether bone quality relates to keel bone damage. The goal of the present study was to detect possible associations between keel bone damage and bone properties of ...
Sabine G. Gebhardt-Henrich, Andreas Pfulg, Ernst K. F. Fröhlich, Susanna Käppeli, Dominik Guggisberg, Annette Liesegang, Michael H. Stoffel   +6 more
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Providing ramps in rearing aviaries affects laying pullet distribution, behavior and bone properties

Journal of Applied Poultry Research, 2022
SUMMARY: To ensure that laying hens can make full use of the various resources within an aviary barn and develop optimum bone health while minimizing keel bone fractures, appropriate cognitive and bone development during rearing is critical.
A. Stratmann, D. Guggisberg, C. Benavides-Reyes, J. Siegford, M.J. Toscano   +4 more
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Astroviruses in Rabbits

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2011
By screening rabbits with enterocolitis or enteritis complex and asymptomatic rabbits, we identified a novel astrovirus. The virus was distantly related (19.3%-23.7% aa identity) in the capsid precursor to other mammalian astroviruses within the Mamastrovirus genus.
MARTELLA, Vito, PINTO, PIERFRANCESCO, CATELLA, Cristiana, DESARIO, COSTANTINA, LAROCCA, VITTORIO, CIRCELLA, ELENA, DECARO, Nicola, BUONAVOGLIA, Canio, Moschidou P, Bànyai K, Lavazza A, Magistrali C   +11 more
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