Translation of "Federpicken" in English

At chronic feather pecking: spray once a day on the birds.

As a result, threatened stress reactions of feather pecking up to the cessation of laying activity.

One example is feather pecking in chickens which can cause injury.

Many causes are possible with chronic feather pecking.

Oropharma No-Pick is a Bitterspray against feather pecking.

Feather pecking of your birds may have many causes.

Feather pecking consists of pecking and pulling at the feathers of other birds.

This product protects growing youngsters from feather plucking by parent animals and helps to prevent feather pecking and self mutilation.

This often leads to aggression, foot problems, stress, feather pecking and cannibalism.

Red mite infestations can cause irritation and restlessness of the bird, feather pecking and anaemia (low red blood cell counts).

The use of systematic beak-trimming to control injurious pecking is criticised by the scientists as painful.

Disadvantages of these systems include problems such as pecking, cannibalism, parasitosis, contamination by external agents, high ambient concentrations of dust and ammonia, and difficulty in controlling microbial infections.

Flooring for fowl should be solid, as this enables the provision of substrate to encourage foraging and possibly help to reduce the incidence of feather pecking.

Turkeys should be provided with perches placed at a height where birds on the ground are not able easily to peck and tug at the feathers of perching birds.

Attempts have been made to select strains of fowl for reduced feather pecking or agonistic behaviour.

Birds housed in a poor quality environment that does not permit them to forage, exercise or interact with conspecifics will experience chronic distress that may be indicated by stereotypic behaviour, for example self-mutilation, feather pecking, and pacing.

However, beak trimming may be authorised by Member States when other measures to prevent feather pecking and cannibalism are exhausted.

Other projects have tackled issues such as welfare of veal calf production, poultry genetics and feather pecking in chickens.

However, in order to prevent feather pecking and cannibalism, the Member States may authorise beak trimming provided it is carried out by qualified staff on chickens that are less than 10 days old.

Injurious pecking presents a serious problem and may lead to extensive tissue damage, cannibalism and mortality.

Alternative housing systems also have some disadvantages which have not yet been resolved, such as higher parasitic infection, feather pecking and cannibalism, which makes beak trimming necessary.

A project carried out under the Fourth Framework Programme discovered means of reducing feather pecking in poultry.

They don’t allow enough space however for the hens to fly or flap their wings, and they do not protect the animals from the inevitable pecking among themselves due to stress.

To speed up the process, biological samples are sent to a laboratory for genetic analysis to identify the relevant genes responsible for harmful behaviours such as feather pecking.11 Selective breeding can also reduce the need for alternative methods such as beak trimming, which has its own welfare concerns as it is painful for the animals.