Published in 2023
Systematic review of the scientific literature on the feasibility constraints on animal-based indicators commonly used in abattoirs to assess the correct stunning of sheep.
Document Types: Scientific review
Animal categories: Ovines
Keywords:Consciousness, Pain, Stress
Published in 2023
Scientific review of the main effects of factors, both before and during transport, that influence piglet response to transport stress and recovery after transport. These include the causes of heat stress, vehicle characteristics (ventilation type and deck location), available space, animal densities, and journey duration, as well as piglet genetics and age at weaning.
Document Types: Scientific review
Animal categories: Porcines
Keywords:Adaptation of the animal to the environment, Societal issues, Transport
Published in 2023
Study identifying 7 facial action units taken from the eye and ear regions and from the mouth and muzzle for the detection of mild pain associated with induced inflammatory mastitis in dairy cows. It uses a six-step process that incorporates expression, selectivity, intra- and inter-observer reliability and measurement error (specificity and sensitivity).
Document Types: Scientific paper
Animal categories: Bovines
Keywords:Animal-based measurements, Pain, Welfare indicators, Human-animal relationships
Published in 2023
Scientific study of the effects of on-farm hatching as opposed to that in a hatchery, including the presence of an adult hen at hatching as an environmental enrichment element, the hatching process, chick quality scores, and chick growth, health and robustness.
Document Types: Scientific paper
Animal categories: Poultry
Keywords:Adaptation of the environment to the animal, Enrichment, Robustness, Livestock farming system
Published in 2023
Article on the links between animal welfare at individual and population levels in zoos and aquariums, and how these two levels can be mutually reinforcing or in conflict.
Document Types: Scientific paper
Animal categories:Wildlife
Keywords:Adaptation of the animal to the environment, Enrichment, Societal issues, Welfare indicators, Living environment
Published in 2023
This article presents a method to estimate the external costs of farm animal welfare and thereby help decision-making for the development and adoption of more welfare-friendly production systems. It includes a calculation for the relationship between animal welfare scores and the costs of animal welfare measures on farms. It has been tested and validated on a dairy cattle farm, a pig farm and a poultry farm.
Document Types: Scientific paper
Animal categories: Bovines, Caprines, Ovines, Porcines, Poultry
Keywords: Modelling, One Welfare,Societal issues
Published in 2023
Scientific article proposing three models, including conditioned reinforcement, to study the complex relationships between environments, innate predispositions and learning in captive animals, which can lead to the development of stereotypies.
Document Types: Scientific paper
Animal categories:Wildlife
Keywords:Adaptation of the animal to the environment, Enrichment, Living environment, Human-animal relationships, Behavioural disorders, Societal issues
Published in 2023
Scientific opinion identifying the most common farming systems in the European Union for each species and category of animal. It describes and assesses the welfare consequences for each species of the following factors: restriction of movement, injury, group stress, inability to adopt comfort behavior, inability to adopt exploratory or foraging behavior and inability to express maternal behavior. It provides recommendations on how to predict negative welfare consequences using both quantitative and qualitative methods.
Document types: Technical Paper
Animal categories: Poultry
Keywords:Adaptation of the animal to the environment, Animal-based measurements,Adaptation of the environment to the animal, Consciousness, Pain, Risk management, Welfare indicators, Housing, Living environment, Mutilation, Human-animal relationships, Stress, Livestock farming system
Published in 2023
EFSA opinion identifying the main types of housing for dairy cows in Europe and, for each, the main strengths, weaknesses and risks likely to reduce animal welfare. It examines five specific negative welfare consequences: locomotor disorders, mastitis, restricted movement and resting problems, inability to adopt comfort behavior and metabolic disorders. It also analyzes a set of farm characteristics that could be used to classify the level of welfare on farms.
Document Types: Opinions
Animal categories: Bovines
Keywords:Adaptation of the animal to the environment, Animal-based measurements,Adaptation of the environment to the animal, Consciousness, Pain, Risk management, Welfare indicators, Housing, Living environment, Mutilation, Human-animal relationships, Stress, Livestock farming system
Published in 2023
Scientific article evaluating the prevalence and repeatability among observers of the four most valid and usable indicators of consciousness after waterbath stunning in turkeys before bleeding (tonic convulsion, respiration, spontaneous blinking and vocalization) and during bleeding (wing beating, respiration, spontaneous swallowing and head shaking).
Document Types: Scientific paper
Animal categories: Poultry
Keywords:Animal-based measurements, Consciousness, Carcass quality, Stress
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