Keywords: Stress

Assemblée nationale : réponse écrite à la question 11346 : Bien-être animal : il faut protéger les animaux d’élevage 

Question: José Beaurain (Rassemblement National - Aisne). Answer: French Ministry of Agriculture and Food Sovereignty

Published in 2023

Answer to a question concerning the position of the French Minister of Agriculture, who has stated that he is against a ban on exports of live animals to countries outside the European Union.

Document types: Regulation/Certification

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

Keywords:Adaptation of the animal to the environment, Animal trade, Human-animal relationships, Stress, Transport

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Impact of light wavelength on growth and welfare of broiler chickens: An overview and future perspective

Abdel-Moneim Eid Abdel-Moneim, Shahida Anusha Siddiqui, Abdelrazeq M. Shehata, Abhishek Biswas, Mohammed Sh. Abougabal, Alaa M. Kamal, Noura M. Mesalam, Mohamed A. Elsayed, Bing Yang, Tarek A. Ebeid, Xiaohua Teng

Published in 2023

Scientific review on the importance of appropriate lighting (including light source, intensity, duration and wavelength) to improve growth and behavior, and to alleviate stress factors in broilers.

Document Types: Scientific review

Animal categories: Poultry

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

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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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Update to the 2014 FAWC Opinion on the welfare of farmed fish at the time of killing

Animal Welfare Committee

Published in 2023

Expert opinion providing recommendations for improvements to   the welfare of farmed fish at the time of slaughter. It highlights the fish sentience, recommends effective stunning methods, and proposes rules to reduce stress and suffering before slaughter. It recommends a legal requirement for inspection , the use of video surveillance on slaughter sites, tighter controls and sanctions, and better management of voluntary code standards.

Document Types: Opinions

Animal categories: Fish

Keywords:Consciousness, Pain, Societal issues, Human-animal relationships, Stress

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Behavioural Indicators of Pain and Suffering in Arthropods and Might Pain Bite Back?

Robert W Elwood

Published in 2023

Scientific review of the evidence that insects feel pain. It studies behavioral indicators of pain, the evolution of major cognitive capacities, sensory systems and decision-making flexibility in insects.

Document Types: Scientific review

Animal categories:Insects

Keywords:Animal-based measurements, Pain, Welfare indicators, Stress

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Assemblée nationale : réponse écrite à la question 7752 : Règles applicables au transport d’animaux vivants et bien-être animal

Question: Thomas Ménagé (Rassemblement National - Loiret ). Answer: Ministry of Agriculture and Food Sovereignty

Published in 2023

Answer to a question concerning France's position on the differences in the application of the regulations on the transport of live animals within the European Union and the action it intends to take at European level to ensure respect for animal welfare.

Document types: Regulation/Certification

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

Keywords: Societal issues, Stress, Transport

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European Parliament: Written answer to Question E-002189/23: Putting an end to the rearing of fast-growing chickens

Question: Annika Bruno (ID). Answer: Mrs Kyriakides on behalf of the European Commission

Published in 2023

Answer to a question on whether the European Commission intends to ban the rearing of fast-growing broiler strains and support small farms that rear hardier breeds of chickens.

Document types: Regulation/Certification

Animal categories: Poultry

Keywords:Adaptation of the animal to the environment, Pain, Societal issues, Living environment, Resilience, Robustness, Stress, Livestock farming system

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Knowledge of lateralized brain function can contribute to animal welfare

Lesley J. Rogers

Published in 2023

Scientific review of the relationship between hemispheric lateralization and behavior in animals. Experiments have shown an association between right-limb preference and positive cognitive bias, and left-limb preference and negative cognitive bias. Animals with weak lateralization tend to be more stressed, fearful and aggressive than those with strong lateralization.

Document Types: Scientific review

Animal categories: All animals

Keywords:Aggression, Aggressiveness, Animal-based measurements, Brain integration, Personality, Cognitive processes, Stress

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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 measurements, Precision farming, Welfare indicators, Personality, Stress

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Aquaculture Certification Schemes Benchmark: Aquatic Animal Welfare - Edition 2

Aquatic Life Institute

Published in 2023

Second edition of a reference tool for welfare-based certification of aquaculture facilities. It analyzes current welfare requirements as part of the basic farming standards of seven international seafood certification programs.

Document types: Regulation/Certification

Animal categories: Fish

Keywords:Animal-based measurements, Consciousness, Enrichment, Housing, Living environment, Pain, Welfare indicators, Stress

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