Subject: Health /Diseases

Limb Health in Broiler Breeding: History Using Genetics to Improve Welfare

P.B.Siegel, Kate Barger, Frank Siewerdt...

Published in 2019

Testing for a possible improvement brought about by genetic selection on broiler skeletal integrity growth rates. Analysis of changes in breeding values over a period of 11-14 years for 5 skeletal health traits (limbs) in broilers from 3 pure lines.

Document Types: Scientific paper

Animal categories: Poultry

Keywords: Evolutionary processes, Carcass quality

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Un bâtiment dynamique avec jardin d’hiver en dindes

Armalle Puybasset

Published in 2020

Description of a poultry house with a winter garden, of associated necessary changes to rearing methods and overview of turkey welfare. 

Document types: Technical Paper

Animal categories: Poultry

Keywords: Adaptation of the environment to the animal,  Livestock buildings, Environment, Housing, Living environment, Livestock farming system

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The Trade-Off Between Chicken Welfare and Public Health Risks in Poultry Husbandry: Significance of Moral Convictions

M. van Asselt, E. D. Ekkel, B. Kemp, E. N. Stassen

Published in 2019

Survey of poultry farmers and the general public on their perceptions of the dilemma: is it better to improve the welfare of poultry through outdoor systems or to protect public health (there are more health risks associated with outdoor systems)?

Document Types: Scientific paper

Animal categories: Poultry

Keywords: Societal issues, Environment, Risk management, Housing, Living environment

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Transmammary delivery of firocoxib to piglets reduces stress and improves average daily gain after castration, tail docking, and teeth clipping

Johann F Coetzee, Pritam K Sidhu, Jon Seagen, Teresa Schieber, Katie Kleinhenz, Michael D Kleinhenz, Larry W Wulf, Vickie L Cooper, Reza Mazloom, Majid Jaberi-Douraki, Kelly Lechtenberg

Published in 2020

A test of the effect of intramammary administration of the anti-inflammatory drug firocoxib in sows on stress and piglet production during painful manipulations such as tail docking, castration, teeth cutting.

Document Types: Scientific paper

Animal categories: Porcines

Keywords: Pain, Welfare indicators, Mutilation, Stress, Livestock farming system

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Assessment and Management of Chronic Pain in Working Equines

Roy RC and Dharmaceelan S

Published in 2020

This review compares several behavioural assessment tools to quantify chronic pain in equines, with the aim of developing one that can be used specifically for working horses and donkeys.

Document Types: Scientific review

Animal categories: Equines

Keywords: Pain, Welfare indicators, Resilience

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In-Person Caretaker Visits Disrupt Ongoing Discomfort Behavior in Hospitalized Equine Orthopedic Surgical Patients

Catherine Torcivia and Sue McDonnell

Published in 2020

Study of the change in discomfort behaviours of horses hospitalised for orthopaedic surgery on the arrival of a carer and their implications for the evaluation of pain (systematically underestimated).

Document Types: Scientific paper

Animal categories: Equines

Keywords: Pain, Welfare indicators, Cognitive processes, Human-animal relationships

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Evidence of Pain, Stress, and Fear of Humans During Tail Docking and the Next Four Weeks in Piglets (Sus scrofa domesticus)

Céline Tallet, Marine Rakotomahandry, Sabine Herlemont and Armelle Prunier

Published in 2019

Study of the impacts of tail docking in piglets on behavioural indicators of pain and stress and on Human-animal relationships.

Document Types: Scientific paper

Animal categories: Porcines

Keywords: Pain, Welfare indicators, Mutilation, Human-animal relationships, Stress

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Automated detection of lameness in sheep using machine learning approaches: novel insights into behavioural differences among lame and non-lame sheep

Jasmeet Kaler, Jurgen Mitsch, Jorge A. Vázquez-Diosdado, Nicola Bollard, Tania Dottorini, Keith A. Ellis

Published in 2020

Test of an ear sensor comprising an accelerometer and a gyroscope for detecting lame sheep while standing, walking and lying

Document Types: Scientific paper

Animal categories: Ovines

Keywords: Pain, Precision farming

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Preventing cold stress in calves

Rosslyn Biggs

Published in 2020

Article setting out advice from a professor at theOklahoma State UniversityCollege of Veterinary Medicine on how to design a suitable plan to prevent
cold stress in newborn calves.

Document types: Technical Paper

Animal categories: Bovines

Keywords:Stress, Livestock farming system

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Effects of Dietary Fiber Sources during Gestation on Stress Status, Abnormal Behaviors and Reproductive Performance of Sows

Shuangbo Huang, Jianfu Wei, Haoyuan Yu, Xiangyu Hao, Jianjun Zuo, Chengquan Tan, Jinping Deng

Published in 2020

Evaluation of the effects of resistant starch and fermented soyanimal welfaren fibre on the reproductive performance and stress status of sows

Document Types: Scientific paper

Animal categories: Porcines

Keywords:Stress

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