Published in 2021
Scientific review of the state of knowledge on management factors for chicks designed to ensure chick welfare and health.
Document Types: Scientific review
Animal categories: Poultry
Keywords: Adaptation of the environment to the animal , Housing, Enrichment, Livestock buildings, Living environment, Livestock farming system
Published in 2020
Study of the effect of the qualitative feed restriction imposed by diffuse feeding on a series of welfare indicators on broiler farms at the end of the rearing period.
Document Types: Scientific paper
Animal categories: Poultry
Keywords: Enrichment, Welfare indicators
Published in 2018
Literature review on issues related to the welfare of teleost fish in aquaculture and research. It addresses the practical factors to take into account when assessing fish welfare, rearing and care, behavioural requirements and current regulations.
Document Types: Scientific review
Animal categories: Fish
Keywords: Animal-based measurements, Pain, Experimentation, Welfare indicators, Fear, Evolutionary processes, Livestock farming system
Published in 2020
Study of the effects in weaned piglets of the inclusion of an extract of Passiflora incarnata in their feed on skin lesions, body temperature, growth performance and immunity.
Document Types: Scientific paper
Animal categories: Porcines
Keywords: Enrichment, Livestock farming system
Published in 2020
Article on how to prepare cows for calving
Document types: Technical Paper
Animal categories: Bovines
Keywords: Risk management, Prenatal issues, Livestock farming system
Published in 2020
Report from a farmer who feeds his pigs soup and has installed pipettes to allow on-demand watering.
Document types: Technical Paper
Animal categories: Porcines
Keywords: Livestock farming system
Published in 2016
This review brings together all the recommendations informed by recent science on the use of fodder for horses. It covers the different types of fodder, conservation methods, hygiene levels, feeding behaviour, composition, digestion and digestibility and the effects of these on health and performance.
Document Types: Scientific review
Animal categories: Equines
Keywords: Livestock farming system
Published in 2019
This 12-page leaflet summarises the main principles to follow in order to improve the welfare of horses.
Document Types: Good practice guide
Animal categories: Equines
Keywords: Animal-based measurements, Anxiety, Learning, Training, Housing, Living environment, Fear, Human-animal relationships, Stress
Published in 2015
What is ethology, the ideas behind it and its methods? How does an animal inhabit its space, make use of available food resources and build its social world? What are the cognitive processes at work in this? How can personality explain behaviour? Written by specialists from different fields but in an intentionally accessible and explanatory way with the help of numerous illustrations, this book offers an overview of ethology grounded in analysis of cutting-edge research in ethology.
Document Types: Scientific work
Keywords: Adaptation of the animal to the environment, Learning, Training, Consciousness, Memory, Living environment, Fear, Cognitive processes, Evolutionary processes, Human-animal relationships
Published in 2018
This book provides up-to-date and comprehensive information on donkeys, with the aim of improving their health and welfare. It focuses in particular on the characteristics of the species compared with other members of the equidae family. It includes a chapter on behaviour which is fundamental to the understanding of this unique animal and key to the clinical signs and requirements for handling, feeding and treatment.
Document Types: Technical work
Animal categories: Equines
Keywords: Adaptation of the environment to the animal, Anxiety, Pain, Welfare indicators, Fear, Human-animal relationships
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