Published in 2021
A scientific review of invasive and non-invasive fish-welfare assessment methods, with a focus on their practical application in aquaculture. New technologies are helping to improve the accuracy, automation and practical applicability of these methods.
Document Types: Scientific review
Animal categories: Fish
Keywords:Precision farming, Welfare indicators, Livestock farming system
Published in 2021
A scientific paper to determine the influence of temperature and air enthalpy variations in live pig transport vehicles using welfare indicators. It shows that such variations are greater in winter, and are associated with higher cortisol and lower blood glucose levels in pigs, both indicators of heat stress.
Document Types: Scientific paper
Animal categories: Porcines
Keywords:Welfare indicators, Stress, Transport
Published in 2021
Written answer from the European Commission to a question on the regulations regarding the prescribing of human medicinal products for animals when no suitable medicinal product is available to treat an animal's diagnosed condition.
Document types: Regulation/Certification
Keywords: Societal issues
Published in 2021
Scientific paper examining whether the tail position of pigs in a pen can be a predictive indicator for the occurrence of tail biting, taking into account the social structure of the group of penned pigs.
Document Types: Scientific paper
Animal categories: Porcines
Keywords:Animal-based measurements, Pain, Modelling, Mutilation, Welfare indicators
Published in 2021
Scientific paper providing information on the space requirements of finishing bulls to ensure their welfare. It focuses on the space occupied when motionless in the standing and lying positions and concludes that further studies are needed to take into account the space requirements of bulls to allow movement and social interactions.
Document Types: Scientific paper
Animal categories: Bovines
Keywords:Adaptation of the animal to the environment, Housing, Livestock buildings, Livestock farming system
Published in 2021
Scientific article presenting the results of an opinion poll on the welfare of dairy calves and the consumption of dairy products by Americans. The most important requirement for the calves in the view of all participants concerned their physical welfare, with a 'natural' lifestyle, humane treatment and the emotional state of the animals coming a distant second. The majority (94%) of respondents were consumers of dairy products.
Document Types: Scientific paper
Animal categories: Bovines
Keywords: Societal issues, Welfare indicators, Human-animal relationships
Published in 2021
Scientific paper comparing the influence of two ventilation systems (natural and mechanical) on the behaviour and welfare of fattening pigs. It concludes that the mechanical system is associated with a more positive emotional state in the pigs, but that in both systems high temperatures are associated with heat stress, and that the welfare state of the animals decreases during the last phases of fattening.
Document Types: Scientific paper
Animal categories: Porcines
Keywords:Adaptation of the animal to the environment, Housing, Livestock buildings, Stress
Published in 2021
Scientific paper presenting and testing computational fluid dynamics models under 4 different sets of ventilation conditions to simulate airflow in cage-free chicken houses. The transition to cage-free rearing calls for changes to environmental conditions to ensure the best quality of animal welfare.
Document Types: Scientific paper
Animal categories: Poultry
Keywords:Adaptation of the animal to the environment, Livestock buildings, Living environment, Stress
Published in 2021
Scientific paper investigating the human-dog relationship during the first COVID-19 pandemic lockdown in Italy. No difference was found in the human-dog relationship during and outside the lockdown period, but owners' perceptions of the costs of dog ownership were lower during the lockdown.
Document Types: Scientific paper
Animal categories:Canine
Keywords : Human-animal relationships
Published in 2021
Scientific paper reporting on work to test whether pet ownership and interactions reduced owners' loneliness and unhappiness during the Covid-19 pandemic. Counter-intuitively, although owners expressed the view that their pet had a beneficial effect on their mental well-being, the data presented by the authors do not support this impression.
Document Types: Scientific paper
Animal categories:Canines, Felines, Fish
Keywords : Human-animal relationships
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