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Animal Welfare - Content and Abstracts
Volume 21
Issue 2
May 2012
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- Breeding for better welfare: genetic goals for broiler chickens and their parents. MS Dawkins and R Layton
- Does breeding a bulldog harm it? Breeding, ethics and harm to animals. C Palmer
- Activity and enrichment use in disabled Asiatic black bears (Ursus thibetanus) rescued from bile farms. JA Dallaire, N Field and GJ Mason
- The welfare of an unwanted guest in an urban environment: the case of the white-eared opossum (Didelphis albiventris). CSA Souza, CP Teixeira and RJ Young
- Cognitive bias in a non-human primate: husbandry procedures influence cognitive indicators of psychological wellbeing in captive rhesus macaques. EJ Bethell, A Holmes, A MacLarnon and S Semple
- Plasma cortisol and noradrenalin concentrations in pigs: automated sampling of freely moving pigs housed in the PigTurn® versus manually sampled and restrained pigs. JN Marchant-Forde, DL Matthews, R Poletto, RR McCain, DD Mann, RT DeGraw, JM Hampsch, S Peters, GT Knipp and CB Kissinger
- Chronic neurophysiological and anatomical changes associated with infra-red treatment and their implications for laying hen welfare. DEF McKeegan and AW Philbey
- Repeated locomotion scoring of a sow herd to measure lameness: consistency over time, the effect of sow characteristics and inter-observer reliability. RB D’Eath
- A survey of the attitudes of stakeholders in the zoo industry towards the husbandry requirements of captive Great Apes. AC Fernie, A Tribe, PJ Murray, A Lisle and CJC Phillips
- Survey of the incidence of post-stun behavioural reflexes in electrically stunned broilers in commercial conditions and the relationship of their incidence with the applied water-bath electrical parameters. MI Anastasov and SB Wotton
- The welfare of growing pigs in five different production systems in France and Spain: assessment of health. D Temple, V Courboulay, A Velarde, A Dalmau and X Manteca
- Attitudes of Canadian beef producers toward animal welfare. JM Spooner, CA Schuppli and D Fraser
- Factors affecting faecal glucocorticoid levels in domestic cats (Felis catus): a pilot study with single and large multi-cat households. D Ramos, MN Arena, A Reche-Junior, AGT Daniel, MVC Albino, AS Vasconcellos, P Viau and CA Oliveira
