Published in 2023
Fact sheet describing commercially-available "welfare-friendly" stunning and slaughtering equipment for some of the most common farmed species in aquaculture, explaining how the equipment works, emphasizing the importance of proper calibration, and of its context of use.
Document Types: Good practice guide
Animal categories: Fish
Keywords:Consciousness, Pain, Societal issues, Stress
Published in 2023
Systematic literature review using 8 previously validated animal sentience criteria to assess whether 6 insect orders are capable of feeling pain. Adult Diptera and Blattodea meet 6 of the 8 criteria, constituting "strong evidence for pain", while the adults and some juveniles from the other orders tested meet 3-4 criteria, constituting "substantial evidence for pain".
Document Types: Scientific review
Animal categories:Insects
Keywords:Animal-based measurements, Brain integration, Pain, Welfare indicators, Stress
Published in 2023
Scientific article defining pain, differentiating it from nociception, and recalling work that has led to the conclusion that most of the 6 largest insect orders are very likely capable of feeling pain. It concludes that this fact should be taken into account by entomologists, and suggests extending the 3Rs rule (replace, reduce, refine) to insect research.
Document Types: Scientific paper
Animal categories:Insects
Keywords:Animal-based measurements, Brain integration, Pain, Welfare indicators, Stress
Published in 2023
Scientific review of current knowledge on sentience in decapod crustaceans. It presents scientific evidence for nociception and pain perception in these animals, and highlights the lack of markers for chronic stress detection that could be used in the routine work of aquaculture businesses.
Document Types: Scientific review
Animal categories:Crustaceans
Keywords:Animal-based measurements, Brain integration, Pain, Welfare indicators, Stress
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 review of the main effects of factors, both before and during transport, that influence piglet response to transport stress and recovery after transport. These include the causes of heat stress, vehicle characteristics (ventilation type and deck location), available space, animal densities, and journey duration, as well as piglet genetics and age at weaning.
Document Types: Scientific review
Animal categories: Porcines
Keywords:Adaptation of the animal to the environment, Societal issues, Transport
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
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
Keywords:Adaptation of the environment to the animal, Enrichment, Robustness, Livestock farming system
Published in 2023
Article on the links between animal welfare at individual and population levels in zoos and aquariums, and how these two levels can be mutually reinforcing or in conflict.
Document Types: Scientific paper
Animal categories:Wildlife
Keywords:Adaptation of the animal to the environment, Enrichment, Societal issues, Welfare indicators, Living environment
Published in 2023
Scientific article proposing three models, including conditioned reinforcement, to study the complex relationships between environments, innate predispositions and learning in captive animals, which can lead to the development of stereotypies.
Document Types: Scientific paper
Animal categories:Wildlife
Keywords:Adaptation of the animal to the environment, Enrichment, Living environment, Human-animal relationships, Behavioural disorders, Societal issues
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