Document type : Scientific article

Improvement of the Welfare Quality scoring model for dairy cows to fit experts' opinion

R. Lardy, R. Botreau, A. de Boyer des Roches, F.J.C.M. van Eerdenburg, S. de Graaf, MJ Haskell, MK Kirchner, L. Mounier, M Kjosevski, F.A.M. Tuyttens, I. Veissier

Published in 2023

Scientific paper on improvements to the welfare quality calculations for the "Absence of prolonged thirst" and "Absence of disease" criteria in the Welfare Quality assessment protocol for dairy cows, bringing the  results are more into line with the input data and better reflecting expert opinion.

Document Types: Scientific paper

Animal categories: Bovines

Keywords:Animal-based measurements, Human-animal relationships, Welfare indicators

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Dairy cattle welfare - the relative effect of legislation, industry standards, and labelled niche production in five European countries

P. Sandøe, H.O. Hansen, E.A.M. Bokkers, P.S. Enemark, B. Forkman, M.J. Haskell, F. Lundmark Hedman, H. Houe, R. Mandel, S.S. Nielsen, E.M. de Olde, C. Palmer, C.S. Vogeler, T. Christensen

Published in 2023

Scientific article comparing animal welfare provisions in dairy cattle production in five countries that have adopted different combinations of approaches (legislation, industry standards, quality label requirements), namely Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden and the UK. It reveals a broad diversity of standards implemented and in the levels of welfare achieved among the countries.

Document Types: Scientific paper

Animal categories: Bovines

Keywords: Societal issues, Human-animal relationships

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Qualitative Behavioural Assessment as a welfare indicator for farmed Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) in response to a stressful challenge

Timothy Robert Wiese, Sonia Rey Planellas, Monica Betancor, Marie Haskell, Susan Jarvis, Andrew Davie, Francoise Wemelsfelder, James F. Turnbull

Published in 2023

Scientific article on the value of qualitative behavioral assessment to evaluate the welfare of farmed salmon. It aims to assess the effectiveness of QBA in measuring changes in the emotional behavior of salmon following a stressful event.

Document Types: Scientific paper

Animal categories: Fish

Keywords:Animal-based measurements, Welfare indicators, Stress

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Dossier thématique : le soin à l’animal

Sonia Desmoulin, Ninon Maillard, Brigitte Leblanc, Estelle Prietz, Maud Cintrat, François-Xavier Roux-Demare, Quentin Le Pluard, Krystel Barbe, Marine Grandgeorge, Jean-Jacques Gouguet, Gérard Leboucher, Sandra Laugier

Published in 2023

Dossier containing articles on the concept of care in veterinary medicine, its portrayal and semiotics, animal and human ethology, economics, philosophy, ethics, legal aspects, the human-animal relationship and animal interactions.

Document Types: Scientific paper

Animal categories: All animals

Keywords:Consciousness, Societal issues, One Welfare, Human-animal relationship

Exploring Consumer Preference towards the On-Farm Slaughtering of Beef in Germany: A Discrete Choice Experiment

Josephine Lauterbach, Antonia Johanna Brun, Anna Maria Häring

Published in 2023

Scientific article investigating whether on-farm slaughtering would be a selling point for minced beef in Germany. It shows that consumers attach the greatest importance to price, followed by information on on-farm slaughtering. Information on animal welfare is more important to German consumers than information on meat quality.

Document Types: Scientific paper

Animal categories: Bovines

Keywords: Carcass quality, Human-animal relationships,Societal issues

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Recognition of aggressive behavior of group-housed pigs based on CNN-GRU hybrid model with spatio-temporal attention mechanism

Yue Gao, Kai Yan, Baisheng Dai, Hongmin Sun, Yanling Yin, Runze Liu, Weizheng Shen

Published in 2023

Scientific article proposing a model for automatic video recognition of aggressive behavior in group-housed pigs, with an accuracy rate of 94.8%.

Document Types: Scientific paper

Animal categories:Pigs, Primates

Keywords:Aggression, Aggressiveness, Animal-based measurement, Precision breeding, Welfare indicators, Personality, Stress

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A two-stage recognition method based on deep learning for sheep behavior

Zishuo Gu, Haoyu Zhang, Zhiqiang He, Kai Niu

Published in 2023

Scientific article on a method to detect sheep behavior based on deep learning. It recognizes six types of sheep behavior, three corresponding to normal physiological activities (standing, feeding and lying down) and three behaviors considered to be disruptive (attacking, biting and climbing) that require immediate action from the farmer.

Document Types: Scientific paper

Animal categories: Ovines

Keywords:Animal-based measurement, Precision farming, Welfare indicator, Human-animal relationship

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Impacts of heat stress on global cattle production during the 21st century: a modelling study

Philip Thornton, Gerald Nelson, Dianne Mayberry, Mario Herrero

Published in 2022

Scientific article using modelling to assess production losses due to heat stress in two different greenhouse gas emission scenarios. Depending on emission levels, economic losses vary between 9.8% and 3 to 7% of the value of beef and milk production worldwide in 2005. These results underline the importance of putting adaptation measures place in to combat heat stress if we are to ensure global food security.

Document Types: Scientific paper

Animal categories: Bovines

Keywords:Adaptation of the animal to environment, Environment, Living environment, One Welfare, Robustness, Stress, Societal issues

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Impact of palmiped farm density on the resilience of the poultry sector to highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N8 in France

Billy Bauzile, Benoit Durand, Sébastien Lambert, Séverine Rautureau, Lisa Fourtune, Claire Guinat, Alessio Andronico, Simon Cauchemez, Mathilde C. Paul, Timothée Vergne

Published in 2023

Scientific article on the development of a model of the 2016-2017 avian influenza epidemic to show that even a slight reduction in the density of palmiped farms in the most densely populated areas would have considerably reduced the number of poultry farms affected. However, this measure would not have been sufficient to completely prevent the spread of the virus.

Document Types: Scientific paper

Animal categories: Poultry

Keywords: Environment, Pathogen transfer,Societal issues

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Animal welfare: Methods to improve policy and practice

Mark Budolfson, Bob Fischer, Noah Scovronick

Published in 2023

Opinion piece arguing that politicians fail to take animal welfare into account in their decision making, despite the ethical and societal importance of animal welfare. It proposes methods to improve policy analysis tools and take better account of animal welfare in public decision-making.

Document Types: Scientific paper

Animal categories: All animals

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

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