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Animal Welfare - Content and Abstracts
Volume 21
Issue 3
August 2012
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DEVELOPMENT OF MEASURES
- Inter- and intra-observer reliability of experienced and inexperienced observers for the Qualitative Behaviour Assessment in dairy cattle. EAM Bokkers, M de Vries, ICMA Antonissen and IJM de Boer
- Is the response to humans consistent over productive life in dairy cows? MJ Haskell, DJ Bell and JM Gibbons
- Measuring foot-pad lesions in commercial broiler houses. Some aspects of methodology. IC de Jong, J van Harn, H Gunnink, A Lourens and JW van Riel
- Monitoring stress hormone metabolites as a useful, non-invasive tool for welfare assessment in farm animals. R Palme
- Automated monitoring of behavioural-based animal welfare indicators. J Rushen, N Chapinal and AM de Passillé
DEVELOPMENT OF PROTOCOLS
- Developing measures to audit welfare of cattle and pigs at slaughter. T Grandin
- The need for monitoring farm animal welfare during mass killing for disease eradication purposes. C Berg
- The development of on-farm welfare assessment protocols for foxes and mink: the WelFur project. J Mononen, SH Møller, SW Hansen, AL Hovland, T Koistinen, L Lidfors, J Malmkvist, CM Vinke and L Ahola
TRAINING AND IMPLEMENTATION
- Applying welfare training in global commercial settings. A Butterworth, P Whittington and A Hammond-Seaman
- A training programme to ensure high repeatability of injury scoring of dairy cows. J Gibbons, E Vasseur, J Rushen and AM de Passillé
- Welfare outcomes assessment in laying hen farm assurance schemes. DCJ Main, S Mullan, C Atkinson, A Bond, M Cooper, A Fraser and WJ Browne
- Challenges to implementing animal welfare standards in New Zealand. CE O’Connor and ACD Bayvel
RISK FACTORS
- The effects of driving events on the stability and resting behaviour of cattle, young calves and pigs. MS Cockram and JY Spence
- Farm animal welfare: assessing risks attributable to the prenatal environment. KMD Rutherford, RD Donald, G Arnott, JA Rooke, L Dixon, JJM Mehers, J Turnbull and AB Lawrence