Document type : Scientific review

Foraging Behavior Shows Individual-Consistency Over Time, and Predicts Range Use in Slow-Growing Free-Range Male Broiler Chickens

Vitor Hugo Bessa Ferreira, Arthur Simoni, Karine Germain, Christine Leterrier, Léa Lansade, Anne Collin, Sandrine Mignon-Grasteau, Elisabeth Le Bihan-Duval, Elodie Guettier, Hélène Leruste, Hanne Løvlie, Ludovic Calandreau, Vanessa Guesdon

Published in 2022

Scientific paper describing the behavioural budget of slow-growing male broilers (S757N) in their social group and usual environment throughout the rearing period, and relating observed behavioural differences in use of space. It shows that foraging (pecking and scratching) can be used as a behavioural predictors of range limits in free-range broilers.

Document Types: Scientific review

Animal categories: Poultry

Keywords:Adaptation of the animal to the environment, Enrichment, Housing, Living environment

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Working for food is related to range use in free-range broiler chickens

Vitor Hugo Bessa Ferreira, Arthur Simoni, Karine Germain, Christine Leterrier, Léa Lansade, Anne Collin, Sandrine Mignon-Grasteau, Elisabeth Le Bihan-Duval, Elodie Guettier, Hélène Leruste, Ludovic Calandreau, Vanessa Guesdon

Published in 2021

Scientific paper showing that the use of runs by free-range broilers is probably related to the individual exploratory character of the animals. It suggests that individual differences between free-range broilers are present even before access is provided to runs.

Document Types: Scientific review

Animal categories: Poultry

Keywords:Adaptation of the animal to the environment, Enrichment, Housing, Living environment

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Emerging Precision Management Methods in Poultry Sector

Katarzyna Olejnik, Ewa Popiela, Sebastian Opaliński

Published in 2022

Scientific review of the opportunities offered by the latest precision-farming technologies for the monitoring and prevention of stress and disease in laying hens and broilers

Document Types: Scientific review

Animal categories: Poultry

Keywords:Adaptation of the animal to the environment, Animal-based measurements, Precision farming, Welfare indicators

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Twelve Threats of Precision Livestock Farming (PLF) for Animal Welfare

Frank A. M. Tuyttens, Carla F. M. Molento, Said Benaissa

Published in 2022

Scientific review of the potential animal welfare risks posed by precision farming, whether these are direct, involving  machinery and equipment, technical failures or the poor choice of indicators, or indirect, involving the end-user, changes to animal housing or management, or a reduction in the consideration of ethical issues.  It calls for the systematic consideration of opportunities and risks when using PE techniques.

Document Types: Scientific review

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

Keywords:Adaptation of the animal to the environment, Precision farming, Welfare indicators, Living environment, Human-animal relationships

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Circus Animal Welfare: analysis through a five-domain approach

Daniel Mota-Rojas, Marcelo Daniel Ghezzi, Adriana Domínguez-Oliva, Leonardo Thielo de la Vega, Luciano Boscato-Funes, Fabiola Torres-Bernal, Patricia Mora-Medina

Published in 2022

The report reviews the scientific literature aimed at evaluating the welfare of circus animals using the five-domain method and highlights violations in each of the five areas. It proposes that these results should be taken into account in developing strategies to improve the quality of life of wild animals working in circuses.

Document Types: Scientific review

Animal categories:Wildlife

Keywords:Adaptation of the animal to its environment, Housing, Human-animal relationships, Societal issues, Welfare indicators

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A Kettle of Fish: A Review of the Scientific Literature for Evidence of Fish Sentience

Helen Lambert, Amelia Cornish, Angie Elwin, Neil D'Cruze

Published in 2022

Scientific review of the scientific evidence on fish sentience and its implications for the commercial farming of fish. It concludes that there is a need to review the welfare regulations for farmed fish.

Document Types: Scientific review

Animal categories: Fish

Keywords:Consciousness, Pain, Living environment, Human-animal relationships, Stress, Livestock farming system, Societal issues

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Avian cognition and the implications for captive parrot welfare

H.S. Starenchak Baukhagen, M.D. Engell

Published in 2022

Scientific review of the potential ethical implications of new information on parrot cognition for their keeping in captivity.

Document Types: Scientific review

Animal Categories:Birds (excluding poultry)

Keywords: Enrichment, Housing, Human-animal relationships,Societal issues, Living environment

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Le bien-être des animaux d’élevage - Améliorer le bien-être des animaux d'élevage

Luc Mounier (coordinator), Xavier Boivin, Cécile Bourguet, Claudia Terlouw

Published in 2022

Announcement of the publication of the 3rd and final volume on farm animal welfare, produced in association with the MOOC of the same name, and coordinated by the VetAgroSup Chaire Bien-Être Animal.

Document Types: Scientific review

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

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

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The causes and consequences of yawning in animal groups

Andrew C.Gallupa

Published in 2022

Scientific review showing that yawning serves as a signal to improve attention levels in observers, and that its contagious nature, found in mammals and birds, has the function of synchronising and/or coordinating group activity patterns, thus playing a social role.

Document Types: Scientific review

Animal categories: All animals

Keywords:Evolutionary processes

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Risk Factors for Chronic Stress in Sows Housed in Groups, and Associated Risks of Prenatal Stress in Their Offspring

Martyna Ewa Lagoda, Joanna Marchewka, Keelin O'Driscoll, Laura Ann Boyle

Published in 2022

Scientific review analysing the different potential risk factors for chronic stress in group-housed pregnant sows, addressing the mechanisms of chronic and prenatal stress, and identifying research needs on these topics.

Document Types: Scientific review

Animal categories: Porcines

Keywords:Adaptation of the animal to the environment, Enrichment, Housing, Maternity, Stress

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