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PLoS ONE, 2023 In recent years, intensive pig husbandry has been subject to increasing public criticism, including a clear demand for more animal-friendly housing systems in many countries.
Aurelia Schütz +2 more
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Spanish Journal of Agricultural Research, 2020 Aim of study: Dairy farmers in Southern Spain are continuously investing in the modernization of their facilities and frequently ask technicians about the type of housing they should choose for their farms.
Laura Molina +3 more
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3D Bird Reconstruction: a Dataset, Model, and Shape Recovery from a Single View [PDF]
ECCV 2020, vol 12363, pp 1-17, 2020 Automated capture of animal pose is transforming how we study neuroscience and social behavior. Movements carry important social cues, but current methods are not able to robustly estimate pose and shape of animals, particularly for social animals such as birds, which are often occluded by each other and objects in the environment.
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Cytokine mRNA abundance in intestinal biopsies from dogs with chronic diarrhea
Veterinární Medicína, 2007 The differentiation between inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and food responsive diarrhea (FRD) is difficult and no objective markers are available. We postulated that patterns of selected key cytokines would help to objectively differentiate between the
S.N. Sauter, K. Allenspach, J.W. Blum
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Veterinary Sciences, 2022 The objective of this study was to examine the effects of housing and management factors on animal welfare indicators in dairy cows using a benchmarking approach.
Daniel Gieseke +2 more
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Animal, 2022 Piling behaviour of laying hens often results in smothering or death due to suffocation. Mechanisms leading to piling are not yet understood though various potential factors have been suggested.
J. Winter, M.J. Toscano, A. Stratmann
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Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2018 Up to 97% of laying hens housed in aviary systems are affected by keel bone fractures. Due to the scope of the problem, multiple efforts investigating causes and consequences of fractures have been conducted. The most frequently used techniques to detect
Christina Rufener +3 more
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Animals, 2020 Low atmospheric pressure stunning (LAPS) has been suggested for use in poultry under 4 kg in the abattoir as a more humane alternative to carbon dioxide (CO2).
Thomas C. Gent +4 more
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Animals, 2021 Group level measures of welfare flocks have been criticized on the grounds that they give only average measures and overlook the welfare of individual animals. However, we here show that the group-level optical flow patterns made by broiler flocks can be
Sabine G. Gebhardt-Henrich +2 more
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Examining the catching, carrying, and crating process during depopulation of end-of-lay hens
Journal of Applied Poultry Research, 2021 Summary: Laying hen flocks undergo depopulation at end of lay, a difficult process that has been associated with injuries and is considered stressful to hens and human collectors. To date, most assessments of depopulations have been conducted within cage
C. Gerpe +3 more
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