Articles tagged with 'Behavioural needs'

Ducks are generally very social and curious birds who can bond closely with people when kept as pets. Ducks are waterfowls, which means they are semi-aquatic, and prefer to spend most of their time in or around water.

Tethering is where an animal is fastened by a chain to a central anchor point, causing it to be confined to a specific area.

Anti-suckling devices such as nose rings or nose flaps are designed to wean calves off milk by preventing access to the cow’s udder while the cow and calf are still together. A nose ring is a metal or plastic ring with spiked extensions.

For cows to produce milk, they have to give birth to a calf. Standard dairy industry practice is to separate calves within 24 hours of birth. This is done to reduce the risk of disease transmission to the calf (e. g.

What is environmental enrichment? Environmental enrichment describes the provision of physical and social opportunities to promote ferret behaviour that is important, valuable, and specific to them.

Calves born in a natural environment will begin interacting with each other at around 1-2 weeks of age when the dam (mother) will leave their calf with a group of other calves and graze nearby.