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Body care contributes to:

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attainment of comfort & avoidance of discomfort

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Grounding

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cattle lie with their belly, brisket, neck, and throat on the ground

Horses show similar behaviors

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Why do cattle use the grounding method?

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Seal off sensitive skin areas from fly irritation

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How else does cattle respond to flies?

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  • agitating the head and ears
  • shaking folds of neck & body skin
  • tail switching, kicking, & stamping
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What is deterioration of coat condition a result of?

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Prolonged stall-housing
or
Enclosure with inadequate bedding

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What causes frustrations in animals?

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Inadequate grooming

– Not being able to reach every area

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What do frustrations lead to?

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excessive grooming of accessible areas

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Comfort shifts occur periodically during ____, including ____.

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resting phases

recumbency

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What is the NORMAL occurrence time of comfort shifts in domestic animals?

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Several times per hour

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What does the absence (or reduction) of comfort shifts lead to?

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Development of edema, necrosis, ulceration, or abscesses over pressure points

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What is an increase in occurrences of comfort shifts indicative of?

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State of discomfort

associated with pain or first stage parturition

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Frequent comfort shifts can be related to…

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less specific forms of discomfort

  • –extreme pain or discomfort
  • –poor quality of accommodations
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Two Types of Grooming

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Auto-grooming

Allogrooming

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Auto-grooming

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contact between 2 parts of the body

licking, scratching

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Can auto-grooming be environment-based

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Yes

rubbing against a post, tree, stone, wall, fence, or cooperating conspecific

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Allogrooming

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Includes mutual licking, nipping with teeth, massaging, nose rubbing, & body rubbing

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Most cats are ____ and spend upwards to ___ of their awake time grooming.

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neatniks

50%

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Kittens learn to groom by:

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Imitation

They learn to lick themselves by 2 weeks of age
Washing themselves by the time they are weaned

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Grooming in cats is helped to maintain

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  • Healthy skin by stimulating the production of sebum
  • Spreads sebum over the coat to lubricate and waterproof fur
  • Removes loose hair and prevents matting
  • Removes dirt & parasites
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What is sebum?

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Oily secretion produced by sebaceous glands at the end of each hair

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Unthrifty appearance in cats can signal

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illness

emotional or physical illness may trigger excessive grooming behavior

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Most cats grooming rituals begin with

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  • licking the mouth, chin, & whiskers
  • each shoulder & foreleg
  • both flanks & hind legs
  • genitals
  • tail (tip to stern)
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How do cats scrub the face, head, and ears?

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dampened forepaw

They re-lick every few swipes

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How do cats scratch/groom their neck and ears?

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with rear claws

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How do cats keep their rear claws groomed? front claws?
nibbling for both rear and front they also claw objects to file front claws
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What's another reason cats groom?
Make them feel better emotionally licking releases endorphins
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Overgrooming behaviors are called
psychogenic alopecia
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Dogs aren't ____ groomers like cats.
consummate
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Dogs are able to use what parts of their body to groom?
mouth | all 4 paws
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What are some reasons dogs lick and bite at their feet?
Clean debris, thorns, & burrs wedged between toes Sometimes: skin allergies, joint or nail injuries, & bruises
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Why do dogs rub on inanimate objects?
to reach areas they cannot just by licking head, under chin, and on ears
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Why do dogs lick/groom each other?
form of appeasement | role in reducing tension and conflict
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When dogs groom each other the groomer is ____ to the one being groomed (____).
subordinate dominate
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How do horses groom?
Eyes, face, nose, & nostrils by rubbing their face up and down the side of foreleg after strenuous exercise horses may rub its head on a person
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Do horses use their tongue to clean nostrils?
NO | They snort to clean their nose
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How do horses groom their hips, flanks, and limbs?
nibble or "snap"
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How do pigs maintain the condition of the body surface?
Scratching themselves, they don't spend much time grooming They do NOT lick or perform allogrooming
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Dirtiness in sows or pigs can be symptoms of ____, but usually is the result of _____ _____.
disease | inadequate environment
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Sows who are kept loose in pens with adequate ____ ____ ____, & demarcated ___ ___ are clean.
bedded lying area | dunging area
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How do wild rabbits groom?
their incisors to pull out dead hair | licking to preen
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Pet rabbits coats are: | How do they groom?
"fluffy" (wild rabbits have short and dense coats) tongues to preen the entire coat
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Do wild rabbits allogroom?
Yes. It's an important part of social behavior It's mainly during periods of rest, they lie together & groom each other around the face and head
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How do rabbits clean its ears & face?
licking its forepaws
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Grooming in cattle is performed in a ___ of ways & makes up ~___ of all behaviors
multitude | 5%
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How does cattle groom?
Lick every part of their bodies they can reach --both forelegs & hind part of the back requires a significant freedom of movement
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(estimated) How much do calves groom?
152 occasions | scratch 28 times a day
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Cattle rinse their nostrils by:
using their tongue
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Cattle use ___ ____ for scratching their ears or other parts of the body
Hind dewclaws
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How does cattle scratch their body?
using solid structures for body care
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How does cattle allogroom?
one animal licking the neck or head region of the other
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Sick cattle often find it ____ to maintain a clear body.
difficult
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How do sheep perform body care?
rubbing their body against trees, bushes, ect... they scratch the breast, upper part of front legs, neck, & head with hind legs Sheep pluck the legs and sometimes flank with their mouths
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How do goats groom?
Oral grooming: scraping the lower incisors through the pelage in bouts of upward motions directed at a single area Adult goats: use horns to scratch their backs Newborn/Young goats: groom more frequently than similarly
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Do sheep and goats allogroom?
NO
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How do domestic fowl take care of their bodies?
taking care of their plumage & stretching movements
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How do chickens take care of plumage
dust bathing | then shaking the plumage
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How often is dust bathing performed? | And how?
once every 2 to 3 days bird lying down & rubbing litter material through its feathers
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How do domestic fowl stretch?
wing flapping rapid simultaneous movements of both wings above the back of the bird
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What is dusting in turkeys?
Sitting birds extends head & makes raking movements in towards the body with its beak - -- a semi circle of dirt is piled against the body - -- dust is worked into the feathers by flapping wings and kicking
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What is thermo-regulatory behavior?
form of body care employed when the environmental temperature, wind speed, and/or precipitation represent the animal with a challenge to its comfort
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How do dogs cool themselves when its too hot?
Vigorously panting cats, ruminants, & birds also pant
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Other than panting how else do cats cool themselves?
anointing themselves with saliva to cool adjacent surfaces by evaporations
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When it's too cold how do mammals increase volume of insulating air trapped in their plumage?
Piloerection involuntary bristling of hair
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Describe outer and down feathers and their thermo-regulatory behaviors in fowl
Outer feathers: protect birds from wet weather and wind Down feathers: are underneath and fluff up to trap air as insulation
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What is the thermoneutral zone (TNZ)?
relationship between animals and the thermal environment
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What is another name for TNZ?
Thermal-comfort zone
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Cool Zone
environmental temp falls below the lower limit of TNZ
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Lower Critical Temperature (LCT)
temp at which animals must produce heat from within the body in order to combat the cooling effects of the environment
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Cold Zone
Below the LCT | only way an animal can maintain homeothermy is to increase the rate of metabolic heat production
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Summit Metabolic Rate
highest rate an animal with ad libitum access to feed can maintain over an extended period
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Peripheral vasoconstriction
increases tissue insulation | earliest response to cold stress
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Piloerection and feather fluffing
are also initial responses to cold stress 27

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