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Current Knowledge on the Transportation by Road of Cattle, including Unweaned Calves
Animals, 2023 Transport conditions have the potential to alter the physiological responses of animals to the psychological or physical stress of transport. Transportation may introduce multiple physical and psychological stressors to unweaned calves and adult cattle ...
Kelly Buckham-Sporer +2 more
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Encoding of Emotional Valence in Wild Boar (Sus scrofa) Calls
Animals, 2018 Measuring emotions in nonhuman mammals is challenging. As animals are not able to verbally report how they feel, we need to find reliable indicators to assess their emotional state. Emotions can be described using two key dimensions: valence (negative or
Anne-Laure Maigrot +2 more
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Effects of cubicle characteristics on animal welfare indicators in dairy cattle
Animal, 2020 Cubicle characteristics such as cubicle dimensions or management factors such as cow-to-cubicle ratio could affect health and behaviour of dairy cows.
D. Gieseke, C. Lambertz, Matthias Gauly
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Beyond GDP and Back: What is the Value-Added by Additional Components of Welfare Measurement? [PDF]
Recently, building on the highly polarizing Stiglitz report, a growing literature suggests that statistical offices and applied researchers explore other aspects of human welfare apart from material well-being, such as job security, crime, health ...
Kassenböhmer, Sonja C. +1 more
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Effect of range use on endo- and ectoparasite infestation in italian organic egg production
Italian Journal of Animal Science, 2019 In organic farms, hens can freely access the outdoor areas, a potential source of helminth infections. This study aimed to evaluate the effective use of free-range access in organic laying hen’s farms located in Italy. The other objective was to quantify
Susanna Lolli +4 more
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Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2020 The feed restriction applied during rearing of broiler breeders inflicts chronic hunger, and frustration due to unfulfilled behavioural needs for feeding.
F. Tahamtani, Hengameh Moradi, A. Riber
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Public Health NutritionObjectives: To characterise nutritionally adequate, climate-friendly diets that are culturally acceptable across socio-demographic groups. To identify potential equity issues linked to more climate-friendly and nutritionally adequate dietary changes ...
Xavier Irz +5 more
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Battery Change Improves the Welfare of Laying Hens
Scientific Papers Animal Science and Biotechnologies, 2023 The aim of this study was to assess the welfare of the laying hens in two different housing systems (conventional batteries and furnished colony cages), evaluating the housing conditions and management practices and some animal-linked parameters (feather
Silvana Popescu +2 more
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Behavioural indicators of welfare in farmed fish [PDF]
Fish Physiology and Biochemistry, 2011 Behaviour represents a reaction to the environment as fish perceive it and is therefore a key element of fish welfare. This review summarises the main findings on how behavioural changes have been used to assess welfare in farmed fish, using both functional and feeling-based approaches.
Martins, Catarina I. M. +11 more
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Porcine Health Management, 2021 Background The use of processed secondary data for health monitoring of fattening pigs has been established in various areas, such as the use of antibiotics or in the context of meat inspection.
Julia Grosse-Kleimann +9 more
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