Hostname: page-component-5c6d5d7d68-ckgrl Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-08-06T13:20:03.952Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Effect of lameness on feeding behaviour of broilers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2018

C. A. Weeks ,
H. C. Davies  and
P. Hunt
C. A. Weeks
Affiliation:
University of Bristol, Department of Clinical Veterinary Science, Langford House, Bristol BS18 7DY
H. C. Davies
Affiliation:
University of Bristol, Department of Clinical Veterinary Science, Langford House, Bristol BS18 7DY
P. Hunt
Affiliation:
University of Bristol, Department of Clinical Veterinary Science, Langford House, Bristol BS18 7DY
Get access

Extract

Leg weakness reduces the amount of time broilers spend on their feet (Weeks and Kestin, 1994). It has been shown for wild birds that the frequency of visits to a food source relate to the cost of reaching it (Kacelnik, 1984). We recently reported (Weeks and Davies, 1996) that this appeared to apply to lame broilers which fed for approximately twice as long but half as frequently as their mobile contemporaries.

Type
Poster abstracts
Information
BSAP Occasional Publication , Volume 20: Animal Choices , 1997 , pp. 124 - 125
Copyright
Copyright © The British Society of Animal Science 1997

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Kacelnik, A. 1984. Central place foraging in starlings. I. Patch residence time. Journal of Animal Ecology 53: 283–299.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Kestin, S. C., Knowles, T. G., Tinch, A. E. and Gregory, N. G. 1992. Prevalence of leg weakness in broilers and its relationship with genotype. Veterinary Record 131: 190–194.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Weeks, C. A. and Davies, H. C. 1996. Effect of leg weakness on feeding behaviour of broilers. British Poultry Science 37: suppl. 76–77.Google Scholar
Weeks, C. A. and Kestin, S. C. 1994. Effect of leg weakness on the behaviour of broilers. Proceedings of the ninth European poultry conference, Glasgow, UK Branch of World’s Poultry Science Association, Vol. I pp. 290–291.Google Scholar