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INJURIOUS PECKING BEHAVIOR OF PEKIN DUCKS ON COMMERCIAL FARMS: CHARACTERISTICS, DEVELOPMENT AND DUCK WELFARE by Yiru Dong A Thesis Submitted to the Faculty of Purdue University In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the degree of Master of Science Department of Animal Sciences West Lafayette, Indiana December 2019 THE PURDUE UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL STATEMENT OF COMMITTEE APPROVAL Dr. Marisa A. Erasmus, Chair Department of Animal Sciences Dr. Darrin M. Karcher Department of Animal Sciences Dr. Susan Sangha Department of Psychological Sciences Approved by: Dr. Zoltan Machaty 2 Dedicated to my parents for their endless love, support and encouragement 3 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Thank you to all the people who have made this work possible. In particular my major advisor Dr. Marisa Erasmus, who has led me to explore the field of animal behavior and welfare and has taught me so much on this path. Your guidance and advice helped me go through this challenging process. I really enjoy animal behavior and welfare research and enjoy working in your lab. Thank you for providing all the encouragement and opportunities for me to pursue this in the academic realm and beyond. Next, I would like to thank my committee members, Dr. Darrin Karcher and Dr. Susan Sangha for bringing different perspectives and providing a lot of valuable advice. Thank you for taking time from your busy schedule to meet with me and giving me all the helpful suggestions along the way. Thank you so much to all the staff and farmers from the commercial duck farms, for husbandry and assistance with my experiment. Thanks to Kailynn Scoles for helping me with the experimental set-ups and providing a lot of helpful advice. Thanks to Rachel Stevenson for helping me set up and tear down the experiment and assisting me in collecting most of the data. I could not have done it without both of you. Thanks to Luoxi Shi, Phillip Shepard, and Ashutosh Srivastava for helping me with all the statistical analysis and answering all my questions. I would like to acknowledge the help and work from Dr. Erasmus’s lab undergraduates: Allison Megl, Laura Zimmerman, Megan Jaros, Emily Furlong and Aspen Bond for helping me with the welfare assessments and helping with hours of videos. Finally, I would like to thank my family and friends for encouraging and supporting me through this whole journey. Mom and dad, thanks for supporting me all the time. You are always there when I need advice or when my morale is low. Friends, you were good listeners when I was under pressure and were good teammates when I need help and advice. 4 TABLE OF CONTENTS LIST OF TABLES .......................................................................................................................... 7 LIST OF FIGURES ........................................................................................................................ 8 ABSTRACT .................................................................................................................................. 10 LITERATURE REVIEW ................................................................................... 13 1.1 Duck welfare .................................................................................................................. 14 1.2 Duck welfare assessment methods and scoring systems ................................................ 15 1.3 Injurious pecking behavior of poultry ............................................................................ 22 1.3.1 Feather pecking ....................................................................................................... 22 1.3.2 Feather picking ........................................................................................................ 23 1.3.3 Cannibalism ............................................................................................................. 24 1.3.4 Aggressive pecking ................................................................................................. 25 1.4 Injurious pecking in different species of poultry and captive birds ............................... 25 1.4.1 Ducks ....................................................................................................................... 25 1.4.2 Chickens .................................................................................................................. 26 1.4.3 Turkeys .................................................................................................................... 26 1.4.4 Pheasants ................................................................................................................. 27 1.4.5 Parrots ...................................................................................................................... 27 1.4.6 Japanese Quails ....................................................................................................... 28 1.5 Development of injurious pecking behavior .................................................................. 29 1.6 Factors affecting injurious pecking development and occurrence ................................. 29 1.7 Aims of this project ........................................................................................................ 31 INJURIOUS PECKING BEHAVIOR OF PEKIN DUCKS ON COMMERCIAL FARMS: CHARACTERISTICS, DEVELOPMENT AND DUCK WELFARE ......................... 32 2.1 Abstract........................................................................................................................... 32 2.2 Introduction .................................................................................................................... 33 2.3 Materials and Methods ................................................................................................... 35 2.3.1 Animals and housing ............................................................................................... 35 2.3.2 Duck welfare assessment......................................................................................... 36 2.3.3 Behavioral observations .......................................................................................... 37 5 2.3.4 Statistical analysis ................................................................................................... 40 2.4 Results ............................................................................................................................ 41 2.4.1 Duck welfare ........................................................................................................... 41 2.4.2 Duck behavior ......................................................................................................... 44 Scan sampling...................................................................................................................... 44 Gentle feather pecking ...................................................................................................... 44 Severe feather pecking, aggressive pecking and forceful self-picking ............................. 49 Focal sampling .................................................................................................................... 49 Frequency of preening ...................................................................................................... 49 Frequency of gentle feather pecking ................................................................................. 52 Frequency of severe feather pecking, aggressive pecking and forceful self-picking ....... 54 Duration of preening ......................................................................................................... 57 Duration of gentle feather pecking ................................................................................... 59 Duration of severe feather pecking, aggressive pecking and forceful self-picking .......... 61 Descriptive characteristics of injurious pecking behavior .................................................. 63 Body locations .................................................................................................................. 63 The observed ducks’ role in injurious pecking behavior .................................................. 65 Feather removal and feather eating ................................................................................... 65 2.5 Discussion....................................................................................................................... 65 CONCLUSIONS AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS ............................................. 72 APPENDIX. EXTENSION BULLETIN ...................................................................................... 73 REFERENCES ............................................................................................................................. 82 6 LIST OF TABLES Table 1.1. Summary of welfare measurements and scoring systems used in previous studies. ... 16 Table 1.2. Definitions of eye condition and nostril cleanliness scores used in welfare measurements from different studies. ................................................................................................................... 17 Table 1.3. Definitions of feather quality scores used in welfare measurements from different studies. .......................................................................................................................................... 18 Table 1.4. Definitions of gait scores used in welfare measurements from different studies. ....... 19 Table 1.5. Definitions
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