Preening cups increase apparent wet preening behaviors, but have no impact on other behaviors, body condition, growth, or body morphometrics of grow-out Pekin ducks

ABSTRACT: Preening cups may be a form of open water that would allow ducks to express preening behaviors. We set out to test the hypothesis that preening cups would not have detrimental effects on ducks or their environment. Control pens (N = 6, 65 ducks/pen) had nipple lines while experimental pens...

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Principais autores:	J.M. Schober, J. Merritt, M. Swanson, V. Tetel, E. Oluwagbenga, D. Frey, H. Parnin, M. Erasmus, G.S. Fraley
Formato:	Artigo
Idioma:	Inglês
Publicado em:	Elsevier 2023-12-01
coleção:	Poultry Science
Assuntos:	open-water environmental enrichment feather pecking duck welfare
Acesso em linha:	http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0032579123006648
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