Animal category: Cattle

Animal welfare attributes in dairy production in Europe: Lessons learned from representative German consumer panel data and discrete choice analysis

Yascha Lena Koik, Holger D. Thiele, Ullrich Enneking

Published in 2019

Study to determine empirically the acceptance levels and evaluation of animal welfare in dairy production by German consumers.

Document Types: Scientific paper

Animal categories: Bovines

Keywords: Societal issues, Welfare indicators, Human-animal relationships

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Symposium review: Future of housing for dairy cattle

P. J. Galama, W. Ouweltjes, M. I. Endres, J. R. Sprecher, L. Leso, A. Kuipers, M. Klopčič

Published in 2020

Preview: “The aim of this review was to describe recent changes and expected developments in housing systems for dairy cows. These new developments should create an appropriate production environment for modern high-producing dairy cows and stimulate dairy farming-related developments in management, agro-technology, and equipment.”

Document Types: Scientific review

Animal categories: Bovines

Keywords: Adaptation of the environment to the animal, Housing, Living environment, Livestock farming system

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Effect of diet on non-nutritive oral behavior performance in cattle: A systematic review

Emily E. Ridge, Margaret J. Foster, Courtney L. Daigle

Published in 2020

Preview: “Oral stereotypies are often performed by cattle as a behavioral coping mechanism. Non-nutritive oral behaviors in cattle may be caused by limited access to roughage. Non-nutritive oral behaviors may be a behavioral signal of a welfare concern in cattle, but may also be a useful behavioral proxy for rumen status.”

Document Types: Scientific review

Animal categories: Bovines

Keywords: Adaptation of the environment to the animal, Anxiety, Enrichment, Stress, Psychiatric disorder

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Grazing Cow Behavior's Association with Mild and Moderate Lameness

Niall W. O'Leary, Daire. T. Byrne, Pauline Garcia, Jessica Werner, Morgan Cabedoche, Laurence Shalloo

Published in 2020

Study of the mobility behaviour of cows on pasture using an accelerometer for the early detection of lameness.

Document Types: Scientific paper

Animal categories: Bovines

Keywords: Animal-based measurements, Pain, Precision farming, Welfare indicators

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Business benchmark on farm animal welfare 2019: "perfect storm" for accelerating food company action on farm animal welfare

Amanda Williams

Published in 2020

8th annual report on political commitment, performance and provision of information relating to animal welfare in 150 international agri-food companies.

Document types: Regulation/Certification

Animal categories: Bovines, Caprines, Ovines, Porcines, Poultry

Keywords: Societal issues, Human-animal relationships

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A review of traditional and machine learning methods applied to animal breeding

Shadi Nayeri, Mehdi Sargolzae, Dan Tulpan

Published in 2019

A review of traditional and new precautionary methods currently used in livestock farming, of their success and of the future of this field in the new era of digital agriculture.

Document Types: Scientific review

Animal categories: Bovines, Caprines, Ovines, Porcines, Poultry

Keywords: Precision farming, Modelling, Livestock farming system

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Prioritization of Farm Animal Welfare Issues Using Expert Consensus

Fiona C. Rioja-Lang, Melanie Connor, Heather J. Bacon, Alistair B. Lawrence, Cathy M. Dwyer

Published in 2020

Collection of expert opinions on the most urgent welfare issues for British farmed livestock

Document Types: Scientific paper

Category of animals: Bovines, Caprines, Ovines, Porcines

Keywords: Societal issues, Risk management

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Cattle lameness detection with accelerometers

N.W.O'Leary, D.T.Byrne, A.H.O'Connor, L.Shalloo

Published in 2020

Preview: “Locomotion scoring is time consuming and is not commonly completed on farms. Farmers also underestimate their herds' lameness prevalence, a knowledge gap that impedes lameness management. Automation of lameness detection could address this knowledge gap and facilitate improved lameness management. The literature pertinent to adding lameness detection to accelerometers is reviewed in this paper.”

Document Types: Scientific review

Category of animals: Bovines, Caprines, Ovines, Porcines

Keywords: Animal-based measurements, Modelling, Livestock farming system

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Etat des lieux de la douleur associée à la mise à mort des bovins sans étourdissement

Cécile Bourguet, Noémie Devriendt, Claudia Terlow, Gautier Riberolles

Published in 2020

Inventory of the sources of stress and pain associated with the stunning and killing of cattle in France, with and without stunning.

Document Types: Scientific review

Animal categories: Bovines

Keywords: Consciousness, Pain, Societal issues, Risk management, Welfare indicators, Brain integration, Cognitive processes

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Vocal individuality of Holstein-Friesian cattle is maintained across putatively positive and negative farming contexts.

Alexandra Green, Cameron Clark, Livio Favaro, Sabrina Lomax, David Reby

Published in 2020

Study to ascertain whether livestock are better able to maintain their individuality when communicating with other members of a familiar group than in other agricultural contexts with positive or negative values.

Document Types: Scientific paper

Animal categories: Bovines

Keywords: Welfare indicators, Stress, Livestock farming system, Vocalisation

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