| Title: |
Effects of the living environment on the behaviour of rabbits |
| Authors: |
Fetiveau, Manon; Besson, M; Fillon, Valérie; Gunia, Mélanie; Lamothe, Laurence |
| Contributors: |
Génétique Physiologie et Systèmes d'Elevage (GenPhySE); École nationale vétérinaire de Toulouse (ENVT); Institut National Polytechnique (Toulouse) (Toulouse INP); Communauté d'universités et établissements de Toulouse (Comue de Toulouse)-Communauté d'universités et établissements de Toulouse (Comue de Toulouse)-Institut National Polytechnique (Toulouse) (Toulouse INP); Communauté d'universités et établissements de Toulouse (Comue de Toulouse)-Communauté d'universités et établissements de Toulouse (Comue de Toulouse)-École nationale supérieure agronomique de Toulouse (ENSAT, INP-ENSAT, AgroToulouse, INP-AgroToulouse); Communauté d'universités et établissements de Toulouse (Comue de Toulouse)-Communauté d'universités et établissements de Toulouse (Comue de Toulouse)-Ecole d'Ingénieurs de Purpan (INP - PURPAN); Communauté d'universités et établissements de Toulouse (Comue de Toulouse)-Communauté d'universités et établissements de Toulouse (Comue de Toulouse)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE); Métaprogramme SANBA; European Federation of Animal Science |
| Source: |
EAAP – 74th Annual Meeting ; https://hal.inrae.fr/hal-04352655 ; EAAP – 74th Annual Meeting, Aug 2023, Lyon, France. ; https://eaap2023.org/ |
| Publisher Information: |
CCSD |
| Publication Year: |
2023 |
| Collection: |
Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier: HAL-UPS |
| Subject Terms: |
[SDV.NEU.PC]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Neurons and Cognition [q-bio.NC]/Psychology and behavior; [SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio] |
| Subject Geographic: |
Lyon; France |
| Description: |
International audience ; Today, rabbits are mainly reared (>90%) in wired unenriched cages, which limits the behavioural repertoire of theanimals. To contribute to the design of welfare-friendly systems, we compared the influence of the living environmenton the behaviour of growing rabbits. Rabbits of two genetic types (control or selected for disease resistance) weredistributed at weaning (35 d of age) in two contrasting rearing systems: (1) in a confined building equipped withwire cages housing 5 rabbits (0.9×0.9 m, modality 1); or (2) in a mobile house equipped with 8 roofless pens (2×1 m,modality 2) giving free access to an enriched (hay rack, straw bale shelters) grassy paddock of 1,940 m2. The behaviourof the animals was assessed using scan sampling by direct observation twice a day (morning and afternoon) at 45,56 and 66 days of age. We distinguished between locomotion (walking, pouncing, running), maintenance (browsing,eating hay or pellets, resting, gnawing), exploration (scratching, observing, training) and social interaction behaviours(side by side, nose to nose). The genetic type of the animals only influenced the very weakly expressed nose-to-nosebehaviour (P |
| Document Type: |
conference object; still image |
| Language: |
English |
| Availability: |
https://hal.inrae.fr/hal-04352655; https://hal.inrae.fr/hal-04352655v1/document; https://hal.inrae.fr/hal-04352655v1/file/EAAP%202023%20Fetiveau%20et%20al%20vf.pdf |
| Rights: |
https://about.hal.science/hal-authorisation-v1/ ; info:eu-repo/semantics/OpenAccess |
| Accession Number: |
edsbas.80C7552F |
| Database: |
BASE |