Selected Publications

1. Mench, J.A. and A. van Tienhoven, 1986. Farm animal welfare. American Scientist 74:598-603.

2. Mench, J.A., 1992. The welfare of poultry in modern production systems. Poultry Science Reviews 4:107-128.

3. Mench, J.A. and M.M. Shea-Moore, 1995. Moods, minds and molecules: The neurochemistry of social behavior. Applied Animal Behaviour Science 44:99-118. 

4. Kannan, G. and J.A. Mench, 1996. Influence of different handling methods and crating periods on plasma corticosterone levels in broilers. British Poultry Science 37:21-31.

5. Fraser, D., Mench, J.A., and Millman, S. (2001) Farm animals and their welfare in 2000. In: The State of the Animals, eds. D.J. Salem and A.N. Rowan.  Humane Society Press, Washington, D.C., p. 87-100.

6. Mench, J.A. (2002) Broiler breeders: feed restriction and welfare. World’s Poultry Science Journal 58:23-29.

7. Bayne, K.A.L., Beaver, B., Mench, J.A. and Morton, D.B. (2002) Laboratory animal behaviour.  In: Laboratory Animal Medicine, 2^nd edition, eds. J.G. Fox, L.C. Anderson, F.M. Loew, and F.W. Quimby.  Academic Press, New York, p. 1239-1263.

8. Garner, J.P., Falcone, C., Wakenell, P., Martin, M. and Mench, J.A. (2002).  The reliability and validity of a modified gait scoring system and its use in assessing tibial dyschondroplasia in broilers.  British Poultry Science 43:355-363.

9. Meehan, C.L. and Mench, J.A. (2002) Environmental enrichment affects the fear and exploratory responses to novelty of young Amazon parrots. Applied Animal Behaviour Science 79:75-88.     

10. Kjaer, J.B. and Mench, J.A.  In press. Behavior problems associated with selection for increased production.  In:  Poultry Genetics, Breeding and Biotechnology, Eds. W.M. Muir and S.E. Aggery. CAB International, Wallingford, Oxon, U.K.

11. Meehan, C.L. and Mench, J.A. In press. Foraging opportunity and increased physical complexity both prevent and reduce psychogenic feather picking by young Amazon parrots. Applied Animal Behaviour Science.