Chicken

Music in the hen house: a survey of its incidence and perceived benefits

Playing the radio made laying hens calmer and more productive.

Year Published: 1999Topics: Environmental EnrichmentAnimal Type: Bird, Chicken

Citation: Jones, R. B., Rayner, S. 1999. Music in the hen house: a survey of its incidence and perceived benefits. Poultry Science 78(Supplement 1), 110 (Abstract).

Can ‘environmental enrichment’ affect domestic chickens? preferences for one half of an otherwise symmetrical home cage?

The design and assessment of enrichment and husbandry procedures should also take into account the transitory neophobia likely to accompany the introduction of unfamiliar resources.

Year Published: 1999Topics: Environmental EnrichmentAnimal Type: Bird, Chicken

Citation: Jones, R. B., Carmichael, N. L. 1999. Can 'environmental enrichment' affect domestic chickens? preferences for one half of an otherwise symmetrical home cage? Animal Welfare 8, 159-164.

Responses of adult laying hens to abstract video images presented repeatedly outside the home cage

The present findings clearly demonstrate that abstract video images, presented in front of the home cage for 10 min on consecutive days, reliably attracted and sustained the interest of individually housed laying hens for as long as 8 days.

Year Published: 2000Topics: Environmental EnrichmentAnimal Type: Bird, Chicken

Citation: Clarke, C. H., Jones, R. B. 2000. Responses of adult laying hens to abstract video images presented repeatedly outside the home cage. Applied Animal Behaviour Science 67, 97-110.

Pecking preferences and pre-dispositions in domestic chicks: implications for the development of environmental enrichment devices

White or yellow strings were preferred to red, green or blue ones and white string elicited more pecking than did combinations of white and yellow or of all five colors. Varying the length and width of the bunches of string...

Year Published: 2000Animal Type: Bird, Chicken

Citation: Jones, B. R., Carmichael, N. L., Rayner, E. 2000. Pecking preferences and pre-dispositions in domestic chicks: implications for the development of environmental enrichment devices . Applied Animal Behaviour Science 69, 291-312.

The demand for straw and feathers as litter substrates by laying hens

This study aimed to determine the importance of straw and feathers to laying. .. All birds worked to gain access to straw but only three worked for feathers. .. Even if a substrate does not support dustbathing, caged layers have...

Year Published: 2000Animal Type: Bird, Chicken

Citation: Gunnarsson, S., Matthews, L. R., Foster, T. M. et al. 2000. The demand for straw and feathers as litter substrates by laying hens. Applied Animal Behaviour Science 65, 321-330.

Working for a dustbath: are hens increasing pleasure rather than reducing suffering? Applied Animal Behaviour Science 68, 39-53

Dustbathing is one of the major behavioural systems of domestic fowl that is constrained by commercial caging systems. ... In this study, we measured hens' willingness to work to obtain substrate for dustbathing using a vertically swinging door to which...

Year Published: 2000Animal Type: Bird, Chicken

Citation: Widowski, T. M., Duncan, I. J. H. 2000. Working for a dustbath: are hens increasing pleasure rather than reducing suffering? Applied Animal Behaviour Science 68, 39-53.

Attentional shifts alter pain perception in the chicken

In humans, psychological manipulations such as hypnosis, behavioural modification, relaxation traning and cognitive behaviour therapy have all been used to reduce pain intensity. One thing these treatments have in comon is selective attention. Work on attention-based cognitive coping strategies has...

Year Published: 2001Animal Type: Bird, Chicken

Citation: Gentle, M. J. 2001. Attentional shifts alter pain perception in the chicken. Animal Welfare 10(Supplement), 187-194.

Influence of vertical panels on use of space by domestic fowl

In the wild, cover is used by animals to seek shelter from the elements, protection from predators and aggressive conspecifics and as a way to reduce inter-animal communication. Rearing environments for captive raised fowl often contain open areas that are...

Year Published: 2001Animal Type: Bird, Chicken

Citation: Cornetto, T. L., Estevez , I. 2001. Influence of vertical panels on use of space by domestic fowl. Applied Animal Behaviour Science 71 , 141-153.

Influence of prior exposure to wood shavings on feather pecking, dustbathing and foraging in adult laying hens

Adult birds that had never experienced shavings performed significantly more feather pecking than birds in any other treatment group. Thus, exposure to shavings, even for the minimum exposure duration of 10 days, was protective. However, current substrate wasof great importance...

Year Published: 2001Animal Type: Bird, Chicken

Citation: Nicol, C. J., Lindberg, A. C., Phillips, A. J. et al. 2001. Influence of prior exposure to wood shavings on feather pecking, dustbathing and foraging in adult laying hens. Applied Animal Behaviour Science 73, 141-155.

The effect of a Freedom Food enrichment on the behaviour of broilers on commercial farms

The effect of an environmental enrichment - straw bales - on the behaviour of growing broiler chicks was investigated. ... The birds provided with bales perched on them and clustered around them. The most striking result, however, was that, even...

Year Published: 2001Topics: Environmental EnrichmentAnimal Type: Bird, Chicken

Citation: Kells, A., Dawkins, M. S., Borja, M. C. 2001. The effect of a Freedom Food enrichment on the behaviour of broilers on commercial farms. Animal Welfare 10, 347-356.