Published in 2023
Scientific review summarizing the behavioral and physiological controls used by cattle to manage heat exchange by radiation, convection, conduction and evaporation between the body and the environment, and thus regulate their temperature in hot conditions.
Document Types: Scientific review
Animal categories: Bovines
Keywords:Adaptation of the animal to the environment, Living environment, Resilience, Robustness, Stress
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
Published in 2023
Scientific review of the impacts of heat stress on the production, fertility, health and mortality of dairy cows, and of the advantages and disadvantages of the various strategies that have been proposed for the selction of heat-tolerant cows.
Document Types: Scientific review
Animal categories: Bovines
Keywords:Animal adaptation to environment, Risk management, Living environment, Resilience, Robustness
Published in 2023
Review of the scientific literature to determine the extent to which regenerative farming systems are or are not associated with positive One Welfare outcomes. It reveals that articles mainly associated animal welfare with animal health, human welfare with the financial situation of the farm and the farmer's self-awareness, and environmental conservation with soil improvement. It shows that processes affecting human welfare and environmental conservation can also affect animal welfare.
Document Types: Scientific review
Animal categories: Bovines, Caprines, Ovines, Porcines, Poultry
Keywords: Environment, One Welfare, Human-animal relationships, Resilience, Robustness,Societal issues, Welfare indicators
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
Key words:Adaptation of the environment to the animal, Enrichment, Robustness, Livestock system
Published in 2023
Scientific article demonstrating that, despite changes affecting their physiology, blood, biochemistry and water and food consumption behaviors, sheep and goats can adapt to higher salinity levels in their drinking water in arid environments. Better adaptation is to be observed in local breeds, which prove to be more resilient.
Document Types: Scientific paper
Animal categories:Goats, Sheep
Keywords:Animal adaptation to its environment, Environment, Risk management, Resilience, Robustness, Stress, Societal issues
Published in 2022
Scientific review of the benefits and risks of grazing for dairy cows, measures that can be used to assess the welfare of cows on pasture, and the knowledge gaps that need to be filled to develop specific welfare indicators.
Document Types: Scientific review
Animal categories: Bovines
Keywords:Animal-based measurements, Enrichment, Living environment, Robustness, Stress
Published in 2022
Scientific article comparing the health and welfare levels of breeding rabbits living with their litters and of growing rabbits in four different housing systems: two unenriched cage systems, enriched cages and pens. Although it does not reveal major health differences, it does identify management and environmental factors other than housing that can influence health and welfare.
Document Types: Scientific paper
Animal categories:Monogastric
Keywords: Animal-based measurements, Animaladaptation, Enrichment, Housing, Living environment, Robustness, Welfare indicators
Published in 2022
Scientific review identifying an increased risk to free-range hens of microbial and parasitic infections, heat stress and predation. They do, however, have better bone quality and show less evidence of pecking behaviors. The review sets out existing preventive strategies and identifies missed opportunities to use genetics and prenatal and nutritional factors to prevent these welfare issues in free-range systems.
Document Types: Scientific paper
Animal categories: Poultry
Keywords:Animal adaptation to environment, Enrichment, Housing, Living environment, Resilience, Robustness, Stress, Livestocksystems
Published in 2022
Summary of a webinar hosted by the USDA on how to mitigate the impacts of heat stress on the health and welfare of pigs in factory farming. It presents research findings to improve heat stress resilience in pigs through a three-part approach, that looks at management, nutrition and genetics.
Document types: Technical Paper
Animal categories: Porcines
Keywords:Adaptation of the environment to the animal, Risk management, Living environment, Resilience, Robustness, Stress
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