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Animal, 2016 To limit tail biting incidence, most pig producers in Europe tail dock their piglets. This is despite EU Council Directive 2008/120/EC banning routine tail docking and allowing it only as a last resort.
R. B. D’Eath +11 more
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Circus Animal Welfare: analysis through a five-domain approach
Journal of Animal Behaviour and Biometeorology, 2022 This study aims to review the current available literature regarding circus animals from the perspective of the five domains proposed for evaluating animal welfare to identify the critical points in the use of these animals and understand how circus ...
D. Mota-Rojas +6 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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Physiological Reports, 2016 Mice are used extensively in physiological research. Automated home‐cage systems have been developed to study single‐housed animals. Increased stress by different housing conditions might affect greatly the results when investigating metabolic responses.
Remi Kamakura +4 more
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Zebrafish: Housing and husbandry recommendations
Laboratory Animals. Journal of the Laboratory Animal Science Association, 2019 This article provides recommendations for the care of laboratory zebrafish (Danio rerio) as part of the further implementation of Annex A to the European Convention on the protection of vertebrate animals used for experimental and other scientific ...
P. Aleström +6 more
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Impact of Housing Environment on the Immune System in Chickens: A Review
Animals, 2020 Simple Summary In poultry production, chickens are confronted with a wide range of potential stressful conditions including restricted movement, long light phases or poor air quality.
T. Hofmann +4 more
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Survey among Belgian pig producers about the introduction of group housing systems for gestating sows [PDF]
, 2011 There is a global move from individual to group housing of gestating sows. In the European Union, individual gestating stalls will be banned by 2013.
B. Ampe +3 more
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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 +4 more
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Automation in the animal house [PDF]
Laboratory Animals, 1978 Whilst appearing attractive, automation must be approached with caution. Much time, effort and money is put into curing 'symptoms' without really defining the problem. Too often organizations launch a programme of automation when what they really need is rationalization.
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