Results 11 to 20 of about 1,438,615 (328)
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
doaj +1 more source
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
doaj +1 more source
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
doaj +2 more sources
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
doaj +1 more source
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
doaj +1 more source
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 +6 more
doaj +1 more source
Influence of weaning age (28 vs. 63 d) on quantitative and qualitative carcass traits of rabbits [PDF]
, 2005 Nowadays there is an increasing interest towards breeding systems, also for rabbit meat production, that are more mindful of animal welfare through an attenuation of the productive cycles intensity.
Bovera, Fulvia +4 more
core +1 more source
Dietary niche partitioning between sympatric brown hares and rabbits [PDF]
, 2017 Coexistence of ecologically similar species is sustained by niche partitioning, a fundamental element of which is diet. Overlapping of resource requirements between sympatric species can create interspecific competitive or facilitative effects on the ...
Aebischer +39 more
core +2 more sources
Early Onset of Laying and Bumblefoot Favor Keel Bone Fractures
Animals, 2015 Numerous studies have demonstrated influences of hybrid, feed, and housing on prevalence of keel bone fractures, but influences of behavior and production on an individual level are less known.
Sabine G. Gebhardt-Henrich +1 more
doaj +1 more source
Dried chicory root (Cichorium intybus L.) as a natural fructan source in rabbit diet: effects on growth performance, digestion and caecal and carcass traits [PDF]
, 2011 [EN] Three experimental diets were formulated including (per kg) 100 g oats (control diet), 50 g chicory root (Chicory 5 diet) or 100 g chicory root (Chicory 10 diet) at the expense of oats. The diets differed with respect to starch and fructan contents.
Bónai +13 more
core +3 more sources