Keyword: Welfare indicators

A Theoretical Framework to Assess the Impact of Flooding on Dairy Cattle Farms: Identification of Direct Damage from an Animal Welfare Perspective

Anna Gaviglio, Anna Francesca Corradini, Maria Elena Marescotti, Eugenio Demartini, Rosalia Filippini

Published in 2021

Study to measure the impact of natural hazards such as floods on the welfare of farm animals

Document Types: Scientific paper

Category of animals: Bovines, Caprines, Ovines, Porcines

Keywords:Adaptation of the animal to the environment, Environment, Risk management, Welfare indicators, Stress, Breeding and rearing

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A Results-Oriented Approach for the Animal Welfare Measure of the European Union's Rural Development Programme

Angela Bergschmidt, Solveig March, Kathrin Wagner, Jan Brinkmann

Published in 2021

Article to develop an evaluation process for the actions of European rural development programmes on farm animal welfare using results-oriented measures

Document Types: Scientific paper

Category of animals: Bovines, Caprines, Ovines, Porcines

Keywords:Societal issues, Breeding and rearing, Welfare indicators

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Using Expert Elicitation to Abridge the Welfare Quality® Protocol for Monitoring the Most Adverse Dairy Cattle Welfare Impairments

Frank A. M. Tuyttens, Sophie de Graaf, Sine Norlander Andreasen, Alice de Boyer des Roches, Frank J. C. M. van Eerdenburg, Marie J. Haskell, Marlene K. Kirchner, Luc. Mounier, Miroslav Kjosevski, Jo Bijttebier, Ludwig Lauwers, Wim Verbeke, Bart Ampe

Published in 2021

Paper proposing a simplified version of the Welfare Quality assessment protocol for dairy cows for routine use.

Document Types: Scientific paper

Animal categories: Bovines

Keywords:Animal-based measurement, Livestock system, Welfare indicator

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Animal welfare attributes in dairy production in Europe: Lessons learned from representative German consumer panel data and discrete choice analysis

Yascha Lena Koik, Holger D. Thiele, Ullrich Enneking

Published in 2019

Study to determine empirically the acceptance levels and evaluation of animal welfare in dairy production by German consumers.

Document Types: Scientific paper

Animal categories: Bovines

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

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Le bien-être des poissons vu par la recherche et par la filière piscicole 

Gautier Riberolles

Published in 2020

Interview on fish welfare with the director of CIPA (French interprofessional committee on aquaculture products) conducted by a researcher in ethology at INRAE.

Document types: Technical Paper

Animal categories: Fish

Keywords: Consciousness, Pain, Societal issues, Welfare indicators, Living environment, Stress, Breeding and rearing systems

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Effect of qualitative feed restriction in broiler breeder pullets on stress and clinical welfare indicators

Fernanda M. Tahamtani, Hengameh Moradi, Anja B. Riber

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

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Does Thirty-Minute Standardised Training Improve the Inter-Observer Reliability of the Horse Grimace Scale (HGS)? A Case Study

Francesca Dai, Mattew Leach, Amelia Mari MacRae, Michela Minero, Emanuela Dalla Costa

Published in 2020

Preview: “The recognition of pain in equine practice is highly dependent on the assessors’ reliability in using pain assessment tools. The Horse Grimace Scale (HGS) is one such tool, a facial-expression-based pain coding system able to identify a range of acute painful conditions in horses. This study aimed at evaluating the efficacy of a standardised HGS training program at improving the agreement of assessors without horse experience by comparison with an expert.“

Document Types: Scientific paper

Animal categories: Equines

Keywords: Pain, Welfare indicators, Stress

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Social genetic effects in livestock: Current status and future avenues of research

Piter Bijma

Published in 2020

Review of the social genetic effect, i.e. the effect of an individual animal's genotype on the phenotypic traits of its social partners.

Document Types: Scientific paper

Animal categories: Porcines, Poultry

Keywords: Animal-based measurements, Precision farming, Welfare indicators

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Grazing Cow Behavior's Association with Mild and Moderate Lameness

Niall W. O'Leary, Daire. T. Byrne, Pauline Garcia, Jessica Werner, Morgan Cabedoche, Laurence Shalloo

Published in 2020

Study of the mobility behaviour of cows on pasture using an accelerometer for the early detection of lameness.

Document Types: Scientific paper

Animal categories: Bovines

Keywords: Animal-based measurements, Pain, Precision farming, Welfare indicators

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