Sentence examples for litter area from inspiring English sources

Further we do not know if providing different types of litter substrates affects hen use of the litter area.

Regardless of litter type, individual hens differed in time spent on litter with some hens never observed in the litter area (all P < 0.02).

For beef cattle housed in uninsulated barns, it is important to design the deep litter area deeper than the dung alley in accordance with the bedding material used.

The laying hen industry is phasing out conventional cages in favor of other housing systems such as the aviary – designed to improve hen welfare by providing additional space and resources including a litter area.

Chicks denied access to the litter area was significantly quicker to reach the probe near the negative location than when denied access to the feed area (mean 8.9±1.7.7 vs. 18.6 ± 1.7) – an 'optimistic' judgement of ambiguity indicative of a less negative affective state when denied litter compared to when denied feed.

In this study we investigated whether disturbing the feed reward cycle in laying hen chicks, by denying access to parts of a pen designed to accommodate the stages of the cycle (litter area 'appetitive'; feed area 'consummatory'; perches and dark area 'post-consummatory'), resulted in a more negative affective state.

Previous studies indicated that FeLV infection is age dependent and primarily acquired by "friendly" cats through prolonged close contact between virus shedders and susceptible cats involving mutual grooming, sharing of food and water dishes, and use of common litter areas [ 36].

Some studies indicate that FeLV infections are age-dependent [ 6] and primarily acquired by "friendly" cats through prolonged close contact between virus shedders and susceptible cats through mutual grooming, sharing of food and water dishes, and use of common litter areas [ 3].

Also consider finding cans on the highway or any other littered area close to you.

Research is focused on unconventional and wide-range resources; for this reason microorganisms are isolated from littered areas, but also from unusual places, such as the depths of the seas (Sekiguchi et al. 2010), gastric juices of worms (Yang et al. 2014) and the surface of leaves (Kitamoto et al. 2011).

They found that indeed cluster bomblets and other munitions litter the area.