Published in 2020
Review of the dietary, social, environmental and veterinary factors affecting the welfare of guinea pigs in the UK.
Document Types: Scientific review
Animal categories: Rodents
Keywords: Adaptation of the environment to the animal, Enrichment, Environment, Housing, Living environment, Livestock farming system
Published in 2020
Preview: “The question posed for the review was “which ITs are related to welfare and how do they monitor this for broilers?”. The Welfare Quality® (WQ) protocol for broiler assessment was utilized as a framework to analyse suitable articles. A total of 57 studies were reviewed wherein all principles of broiler welfare were addressed.”
Document Types: Scientific review
Animal categories: Poultry
Keywords: Animal-based measurements, Precision farming, Welfare indicators
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
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
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
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 2019
Review of major advances in the development of physiological welfare biomarkers to monitor animal responses to, and recovery from, environmental disturbances in dairy cows and small ruminants.
Document Types: Scientific review
Animal categories: Bovines
Keywords: Welfare indicators, Livestock farming system
Published in 2020
Review of current scientific knowledge on the use of composted bedding as a cow housing system. Goals: to determine whether this improves animal welfare and to provide a comprehensive tool for producers and researchers who use this housing system.
Document Types: Scientific review
Animal categories: Bovines
Keywords: Livestock buildings, Enrichment, Environment, Housing, Livestock farming system
Published in 2020
Literature review on animal-welfare teaching in higher education (UK) and recommendations for its improvement.
Document Types: Scientific review
Keywords: Societal issues
Published in 2020
This review compares several behavioural assessment tools to quantify chronic pain in equines, with the aim of developing one that can be used specifically for working horses and donkeys.
Document Types: Scientific review
Animal categories: Equines
Keywords: Pain, Welfare indicators, Resilience
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