Resilience in farm animals: biology, management, breeding and implications for animal welfare

IG Colditz, BC Hine - Animal Production Science, 2016 - CSIRO Publishing
A capacity for the animal to recover quickly from the impact of physical and social stressors
and disease challenges is likely to improve evolutionary fitness of wild species and welfare …

How farm animals react and perceive stressful situations such as handling, restraint, and transport

T Grandin, C Shivley - Animals, 2015 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary A common animal welfare question is: how stressful is handling and
restraining farm animals for veterinary procedures even when no surgical or invasive …

[HTML][HTML] Qualitative Behavioural Assessment of emotionality in pigs

KMD Rutherford, RD Donald, AB Lawrence… - Applied animal …, 2012 - Elsevier
Scientific assessment of affective states in animals is challenging but vital for animal welfare
studies. One possible approach is Qualitative Behavioural Assessment (QBA), a 'whole …

Towards a positive welfare protocol for cattle: a critical review of indicators and suggestion of how we might proceed

LJ Keeling, C Winckler, S Hintze… - Frontiers in animal …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Current animal welfare protocols focus on demonstrating the absence (or at least low levels)
of indicators of poor welfare, potentially creating a mismatch between what is expected by …

A review of behavioural methods to study emotion and mood in pigs, Sus scrofa

E Murphy, RE Nordquist, FJ van der Staay - Applied animal behaviour …, 2014 - Elsevier
The study of emotions in animals is of increasing importance to a number of disciplines such
as animal welfare science and affective neuroscience. Pigs are a common farm animal …

[HTML][HTML] Potential risk factors associated with contact dermatitis, lameness, negative emotional state, and fear of humans in broiler chicken flocks

AW Bassler, C Arnould, A Butterworth, L Colin… - Poultry Science, 2013 - Elsevier
The objectives of this study were to 1) identify determinants of poor welfare in commercial
broiler chicken flocks by studying the associations between selected resource-based …

Welfare of cattle during transport

EFSA Panel on Animal Health and Welfare … - EFSA …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
In the framework of its Farm to Fork Strategy, the Commission is undertaking a
comprehensive evaluation of the animal welfare legislation. The present Opinion deals with …

Assessing equine emotional state

C Hall, H Randle, G Pearson, L Preshaw… - Applied animal behaviour …, 2018 - Elsevier
The scientific study of animal emotion has recently become an important focus for animal
behaviour and welfare researchers. For horses used by humans for work, recreation or …

The correlation of Qualitative Behavior Assessments with Welfare Quality® protocol outcomes in on-farm welfare assessment of dairy cattle

SN Andreasen, F Wemelsfelder, P Sandøe… - Applied animal …, 2013 - Elsevier
The effort to develop methods for assessing animal welfare at farm level has grown
dramatically since the end of the 1990s, culminating in the protocols developed by the …

The contribution of qualitative behavioural assessment to appraisal of livestock welfare

PA Fleming, T Clarke, SL Wickham… - Animal Production …, 2016 - CSIRO Publishing
Animal welfare is increasingly important for the Australian livestock industries, to maintain
social licence to practice as well as ensuring market share overseas. Improvement of animal …