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Safety in The Animal House [PDF]

Laboratory Animals, 1967
Work in the animal house is no less hazardous than in the laboratory, and, indeed, presents a number of additional safety problems concerned with the accidental transmission of experimental infections to humans. It is primarily to these that this paper is devoted.
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Genetic variation of keel and long bone skeletal properties for 5 lines of laying hens

Journal of Applied Poultry Research, 2020
Summary: Fractures to the keel bone is one of the greatest problems facing the laying hen industry. With most severe effects observed in non-cage housing, frequencies are expected to dramatically increase as the industry continues transitioning away from
L. Candelotto, M. Stadelmann, S.G. Gebhardt-Henrich, A. Stratmann, T.G.H. van de Braak, D. Guggisberg, P. Zysset, M.J. Toscano   +7 more
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Effects of Housing and Management Factors on Selected Indicators of the Welfare Quality^® Protocol in Loose-Housed Dairy Cows

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, Christian Lambertz, Matthias Gauly   +2 more
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A Reliable Method to Assess Keel Bone Fractures in Laying Hens From Radiographs Using a Tagged Visual Analogue Scale

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, Sarah Baur, Ariane Stratmann, Michael J. Toscano   +3 more
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Evaluation of Poultry Stunning with Low Atmospheric Pressure, Carbon Dioxide or Nitrogen Using a Single Aversion Testing Paradigm

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, Sabine Gebhardt-Henrich, Sarah-Lina Aagaard Schild, Abdulsatar Abdel Rahman, Michael J. Toscano   +4 more
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Groups and Individuals: Optical Flow Patterns of Broiler Chicken Flocks Are Correlated with the Behavior of Individual Birds

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, Ariane Stratmann, Marian Stamp Dawkins   +2 more
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Effect of maternal dietary manipulation and in ovo injection of nutrients on the hatchability indices, post-hatch growth, feed consumption, feed conversion ratio and immunocompetence traits of turkey poults

Journal of Applied Animal Research, 2018
Two hundred turkey breeder hens and 24 viable toms of 30-35 weeks (wk) old of small white variety were distributed into 2 treatment groups having 4 replicates First four replicates were offered diet A [National Research Council. 1994.
Amitav Bhattacharyya, Samir Majumdar, Subrat Kumar Bhanja, Asit Baran Mandal, Mukund Kadam   +4 more
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Animal-appropriate housing of ball pythons (Python regius)-Behavior-based evaluation of two types of housing systems.

PLoS ONE, 2021
Considering animal welfare, animals should be kept in animal-appropriate and stress-free housing conditions in all circumstances. To assure such conditions, not only basic needs must be met, but also possibilities must be provided that allow animals in ...
Tina Hollandt, Markus Baur, Anna-Caroline Wöhr   +2 more
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Research Note: A validation of an image-based method to estimate chicken comb size

Poultry Science
: Chicken combs carry important information about the individual, especially the size has been related to sexual reproduction, health, and social signaling.
Klara J. Grethen, Laura Candelotto, Yamenah Gómez, Michael J. Toscano   +3 more
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Effect of Different Housing System on the Morphological Traits, Physiological Responses and Behavioral Observations of Sirohi Kids

International Journal of Bio-Resource and Stress Management, 2021
The research was carried out at the Instructional Livestock Farm, College of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Udaipur (RAJUVAS), Rajasthan, India during September to December, 2021 to determine how the conventional and loose housing systems affect the ...
H. A. Waiz, L. Gautam
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