Synergy for preventing damaging behaviour in group housed pigs and chickens
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From Beak to Tail – mechanisms underlying damaging behaviour in laying hens and pigs
See below the presentations which were given at the From Beak to Tail meeting
Introduction - Anna Valros
Theme 1 - Mechanisms underlying the link between health and damaging behaviour
Plenary 1: Mechanisms underlying the link between health and tail biting in pigs - Janicke Nordgreen
Plenary 2: Relationships between health and damaging behaviours in laying hens - Jerine van der Eijk
Participant presentations
1. Can we predict tail biting? Lisette van der Zande
2. Link between injurious pecking and keel bone damage in laying hens - Anja Brinch Riber
3. Does chronic intermittent stress increase manipulation behaviour in pigs - Mirjam Holinger
4. Effect of removing antibiotics from the diet of weaner pigs on ear biting behaviour and ear lesions - Laura Boyle
Minutes of the group discussion regarding mechanisms underlying the link between health and damaging behaviour
Theme 2 - Predisposing factors for damaging behaviour during early development
Plenary 1:Development of injurious pecking in laying hens: From family life (or lack of) to foraging - Jo Edgar
Plenary 2: Early life predisposing factors for biting behaviours in pigs - Armelle Prunier
1. A tool to work on risk factors during rearing for feather pecking and cannibalism in laying hens - Ute Knierim
2. The influence of floor substrate in first weeks of life on feather pecking during rear and lay - Elske de Haas
3. Predisposing factors for damaging behaviour during early development - a role for early feeding? - Anouschka Middelkoop
4. The crooked mind of the commercial pig: can we rectify abnormal biting behaviour by early and later life conditions - Irene Camerlink
Minutes of the group discussion regarding predisposing factors for damaging behaviour during early development
Participants are listed here
