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  • The influence of environment enrichment on the behaviour of fattening rabbits housed individual wire cages = Einfluss der Umweltanreicherung auf das Verhalten von Mastkanninchen in individuellen Drahtgitterkäfigen
    Jordan, Dušanka ...
    The influence of addition of gnawing as a material for environment enrichment on the behaviour of fattening rabbits was studied in two replicates, lasting six weeks. Each, spring and summer ... replicate, included 40 male New Zealand White rabbits line SIKA. At the beginning of each replicate the animals were seven weeks old. Rabbits were housed individually in wire cages wquipped with feeder and nipple drinkers. Feed and water were avaliable ad libitum, the duration of lighting was 12 hours. Half of the animals had enriched cages with fir-wood sticks as a material for gnawing. To estimate the effects of the environmental enrichment on the rabbits' welfare, 16 focus animals were observed with direct observation once a week for 12 hours during light period. We observed hopping, sniffing, drinking, eating, wood gnawing, biting wire and feeder, caecotrophy, grooming and inactivity. Rabbits were inactive during of observation time, namely 61%. A lot of time was also spent for grooming (27%) and eating (12). Environmental enrichment had no significant influence on animals' behaviour, except for biting the wire and feeder. Rabbits with no access to gnawing stick bit wire and feeder more often than animals in enriched cages (p)0.0054). Wood gnawing had significant (p<0.05) but low correlations with the total sum of all activities (r=-0.227).
    Vir: 13. Arbeitstagung über Haltung und Krankheiten der Kaninchen, Pelztiere und Heimtiere = 13th Symposium on Housing and Diseases of Rabbits, Furbearing Animals and Pet Animals : 14.-15. Mai 2003 in Celle (Str. 119-126)
    Vrsta gradiva - prispevek na konferenci
    Leto - 2003
    Jezik - angleški
    COBISS.SI-ID - 1465736

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