Rencontre animal welfare au Salon International de l’Agriculture 2023 : Révision de la réglementation sur le bien-être animal : des initiatives françaises à porter à l’Europe – présentations des intervenants
Published in 2023
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The reference documents on animal welfare available from this hub have been selected by the expert members of the FRCAW steering committee.
The hub provides access to various types of document covering all the sectors and species that fall within the FRCAW's remit:
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Total: 1038 documents on the resource platform
Renouvellement de la convention-cadre du Centre national de référence pour le bien-être animal
Published in 2023
Animal categories: All animals
Keywords: All subjects
A literature review of broiler chicken welfare, husbandry, and assessment
Published in 2023
Scientific review examining the main commercial broiler farming systems in Indonesia, looking at assessment methods, indicators, main welfare problems, and opportunities for improvement.
Document types : Scientific paper
Animal categories: Poultry
Keywords: Adaptation of the animal to the environment, Enrichment, Housing, Human-animal relationship, Pain, Welfare indicators
A method for calculating the external costs of farm animal welfare based on the Welfare Quality® Protocol
Published in 2023
This article presents a method to estimate the external costs of farm animal welfare and thereby help decision-making for the development and adoption of more welfare-friendly production systems. It includes a calculation for the relationship between animal welfare scores and the costs of animal welfare measures on farms. It has been tested and validated on a dairy cattle farm, a pig farm and a poultry farm.
Document types : Scientific paper
Animal categories: Bovines, Caprines, Ovines, Porcines, Poultry
Keywords: Modeling, One Welfare, Societal issues
A review of thermal stress in cattle
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: Animal adaptation to environment, Living environment, Resilience, Robustness, Stress
A six-step process to explore facial expressions performances to detect pain in dairy cows with lipopolysaccharide-induced clinical mastitis
Published in 2023
Study identifying 7 facial action units taken from the eye and ear regions and from the mouth and muzzle for the detection of mild pain associated with induced inflammatory mastitis in dairy cows. It uses a six-step process that incorporates expression, selectivity, intra- and inter-observer reliability and measurement error (specificity and sensitivity).
Document types : Scientific paper
Animal categories: Bovines
Keywords: Animal-based measurements, Pain, Welfare indicators, Human-animal relationships
