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Positive Welfare Indicators in Dairy Animals
Dairy, 2022 Nowadays, there is growing interest in positive animal welfare not only from the view of scientists but also from that of society. The consumer demands more sustainable livestock production, and animal welfare is an essential part of sustainability, so ...
Maria Papageorgiou +1 more
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Animals, 2021 In New Zealand, over two million dairy calves between four and seven days of age are sent to meat processing premises every year. There is a need to develop protocols for holistically assessing the welfare of calves sent to slaughter in the first week of
Anna L. Palmer +3 more
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Animal Welfare Issues in Capture-Based Aquaculture
Animals, 2021 Capture-based aquaculture (CBA) represents a type of intensive aquaculture production system for some economically valuable fish species, such as bluefin tuna (Thunnus thynnus), eel (Anguilla spp.) and Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua).
Uthpala Chandararathna +4 more
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Animal-based welfare indicators for dairy cows and their validity and practicality: a systematic review of the existing literature [PDF]
Frontiers in Veterinary ScienceRoswitha Merle, Christa Thone-Reineke
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Animals, 2020 For on-farm welfare assessment many automatic methods have been developed to detect indicators of reduced welfare. However, there is still a need to integrate data from single sources to obtain a complete picture of the welfare of an animal.
Lisette M.C. Leliveld, Giorgio Provolo
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Animals, 2023 The monitoring and assessment of animals is important for their health and welfare. The appropriate selection of multiple, validated, and feasible welfare assessment indicators is required to effectively identify compromises or improvements to animal ...
Shari Cohen, Cindy Ho
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Data on children reentering foster care from kinship guardianship
Data in Brief, 2018 This article describes a dataset containing information on children exiting to kinship guardianship in California between 2003 and 2010 (N = 18,831). Children and young people in the sample were followed for up to fourteen years.
Arno Parolini +5 more
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Welfare indicators during broiler slaughtering [PDF]
British Poultry Science, 2015 1. The aim of this study was to identify the most relevant welfare indicators for unloading, lairage, stunning, killing and post-mortem inspection in a poultry slaughter plant. Different indicators were unloading duration, lairage time, environmental variables in the lairage facilities, shackling time and electrical variables used in the water bath. 2.
Grilli, C +5 more
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Validating Indicators of Subjective Animal Welfare [PDF]
Philosophy of Science, 2023 AbstractMeasurement of subjective animal welfare creates a special problem in validating the measurement indicators used. Validation is required to ensure indicators are measuring the intended target state, and not some other object. While indicators can usually be validated by looking for correlation between target and indicator under controlled ...
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Measuring the Generosity of Parental Leave Policies
Social Inclusion, 2021 In order to investigate and compare welfare states or specific welfare programmes, scientists, opinion‐makers and politicians rely on indicators. As many of the concepts or objects studied are somewhat abstract, these indicators can often only be ...
Adeline Otto +2 more
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