Benefits of a Ball and Chain: Simple Environmental Enrichments Improve Welfare and Reproductive Success in Farmed American Mink (Neovison vison)

• Rebecca K. Meagher,

  Affiliations Department of Animal and Poultry Science, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada, Animal Welfare Program, Faculty of Land and Food Systems, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

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• Jamie Ahloy Dallaire,

  Affiliation Department of Animal and Poultry Science, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada

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• Dana L. M. Campbell,

  Affiliation Department of Animal and Poultry Science, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada

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• Misha Ross,

  Affiliation Department of Animal and Poultry Science, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada

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• Steen H. Møller,

  Affiliation Department of Animal Science, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark

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• Steffen W. Hansen,

  Affiliation Department of Animal Science, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark

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• María Díez-León,

  Affiliation Department of Animal and Poultry Science, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada

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• Rupert Palme,

  Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences/Biochemistry, University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna, Austria

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• Georgia J. Mason

  * E-mail: gmason@uoguelph.ca

  Affiliation Department of Animal and Poultry Science, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada

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