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  • Hedlund, LouiseLinköpings universitet,Biologi,Tekniska fakulteten (författare)

Stress during Commercial Hatchery Processing Induces Long-Time Negative Cognitive Judgement Bias in Chickens

  • Artikel/kapitelEngelska2021

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  • 2021-04-10
  • MDPI,2021
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  • LIBRIS-ID:oai:DiVA.org:liu-175615
  • https://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-175615URI
  • https://doi.org/10.3390/ani11041083DOI

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  • Språk:engelska
  • Sammanfattning på:engelska

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  • Funding Agencies|FORMASSwedish Research Council Formas [2016-01728]
  • Simple Summary Worldwide, billions of laying hen chicks are incubated, hatched and processed in industrial hatcheries every year. When exposed to stress, hormones are incorporated in the feathers of the birds. Here, we measured levels of the stress hormone corticosterone to investigate possible stress during the incubation. Further, animals can perceive their environment either in a positive (optimistic) or a negative (pessimistic) way. We investigated how the early hatchery experiences affects "optimism" and "pessimism". Commercially hatched chicks were exposed to a positive cue, an aversive cue, and ambiguous cues, in order to evaluate the cognitive welfare state of the animals. These chicks were compared to a group of non-stressed animals. Commercially incubated chicks did not have elevated levels of feather corticosterone, which implies that the main part of the stress effects from the hatchery originates from the period around hatch. Latencies to approach ambiguous cues were longer for the stressed chicks, i.e., these showed a more pessimistic-like behaviour. We conclude that the main part of the stress effects in commercially hatched chicks originates in the period around hatch, and further, that these birds show lasting levels of increased pessimism. This strongly indicates a long-time poorer welfare state for the animals. Worldwide, billions of laying hen chicks are incubated and processed under highly industrialised circumstances every year, which, as we have previously shown, has long-lasting effects. Here, we measured corticosterone incorporated in down feathers to investigate possible stress during the incubation and showed that commercially incubated chicks did not have elevated levels of feather corticosterone, which implies that the main part of the stress effects from hatchery originates from the perinatal period and the handling immediately post-hatch. Further, we investigated how the early hatchery stress affects the chicks cognitive welfare state, i.e., "optimism" and "pessimism". We exposed commercially hatched chickens to a positive cue, an aversive cue and ambiguous cues. The birds were tested at 1 and 10 w of age and the behaviour was compared with that of non-stressed chicks. Latencies to approach ambiguous cues were longer for the stressed chicks, both at 1 (p = 0.008) and at 10 (p = 0.020) weeks of age, i.e., these showed a more pessimistic-like behaviour. We conclude that the main part of the stress effects in commercially hatched chicks originates in the perinatal period, and further, that these birds show lasting levels of increased pessimism. This strongly indicates a long-time poorer welfare state for the animals.

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  • Palazon, TiphaineLinköpings universitet,Institutionen för fysik, kemi och biologi,Tekniska fakulteten(Swepub:liu)n/a (författare)
  • Jensen, PerLinköpings universitet,Biologi,Tekniska fakulteten(Swepub:liu)perje15 (författare)
  • Linköpings universitetBiologi (creator_code:org_t)

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  • Ingår i:Animals: MDPI11:42076-2615

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