Sentence examples for for dust bathing from inspiring English sources
A broiler chicken has a similar demand for dust bathing as a jungle fowl.
Chickens often clean themselves with dust bathing.
"Animals that are built to move should be allowed to move," he said in an interview, and for chickens that means space for dust-bathing, perching and nesting.
"Knowing that you made a difference in someone's life," that Lily spent her last year flapping her wings, scratching the ground and dust bathing in the sun.
We show that facilitating intrinsically motivated laying hen dust bathing behaviour can simultaneously resolve the environmental dust problem experienced in loose housing systems.
Forget being able to engage in natural behaviors such as perching or dust bathing: they can't even spread their wings.
Often the concern that animals are not able to perform behaviours for which they are strongly motivated, such as nest building in sows, grazing in cattle and horses or dust bathing in hens, is less frequently spelled out.
The housing systems used in Sweden during the study period were: 1) single-tiered floor systems with manure bins, with or without regular removal of manure, 2) multi-tiered floor systems (aviaries) with litter belts for regular removal of manure, 3) conventional battery cages, and 4) furnished cages (cages with perches, nests and dust bathing areas).
Dust bathing also prevents mites, lice and other nasty parasites.
They will soon begin dust bathing which quail love very much.
