Welfare assessment/enhancement

• A diagnostic tool to assess and enhance calf welfare and management on-farm
• A novel system to automatically measure behavioural motivation for food in cattle
• A wireless sleep actigraph for calves
• Acoustic features of trapped piglet screams and their effect on maternal reactivity
• Alleviation of pain and discomfort through common dental procedures for horses
• Animal welfare science and policy – oil and water or sugar and spice?
• Assessing cattle welfare at stunning
• Assessing dog aggressiveness: validation of a behavioural test using the c-barq questionnaire
• Automated measurement of feeding behavior to detect illness in milk-fed calves
• Behavioral and physiological responses of dairy cows to lipopolysaccharide induced clinical mastitis
• Behaviour of dairy goats in the collecting area – influence of space allowance and shape
• Breed differences in individual distance of domestic sheep
• Can simple visual discrimination learning be used on laying hens as on-farm assessment?
• Can the weaning stress of dairy calves be reduced by weaning later?
• Changes in captive red river hog (Potamochoerus porcus) peripartum mother and infant behaviour for one month after farrowing
• Comparison between blood and salivary cortisol levels in horses (Equus caballus) using an ACTH challenge
• Comparison of novel methods to alleviate the pain caused by castration in pigs
• Consistency of flight speed and individual behavioural characteristics of dairy cattle to restraint in a crush
• Dairy cattle prefer shade over sprinklers in summer: effects on behaviour and physiology
• Dairy cows will work for access to shelter from wind and rain
• Development and validation of the Behavioural Assessment for Re-homing K9’s (B.A.R.K.)
• Development of electrical activity and responses to noxious stimuli in the chicken brain
• Different roughages to organic growing/finishing pigs - influence on activity behaviour and social interactions
• Does flight distance really reflect the reaction to direct contact of human in cow?
• Effect of age on physiology and recovery behaviour of calves transported for 10 hours in individual pens
• Effect of alternative methods for increasing stocking density short-term on lying and ruminating behavior of lactating Holstein dairy cows.
• Effect of environmental enrichment on the behaviour and welfare of suckling dairy goat kids in confinement
• Effects of alternative housing systems on dry sow well-being
• Effects of grazing opportunities on dairy cow comfort
• Effects of hide provision and regular petting on the behaviour of stray and surrendered cats in a quarantine shelter
• Effects of pre- and postnatal flavour exposure on stress-related behaviour and postweaning performance in piglets
• Effects of split marketing on agonistic behaviour and carcass characteristics of entire male pigs and gilts in a restricted feeding system
• Elevated plasma corticosterone in domesticated hens affects their offspring’s behaviour and physiology both in youth and adulthood
• Enrichment programs and animal welfare: catalyst or catastrophe?
• Evaluation of an animal-based welfare protocol for growing pigs in intensive and extensive conditions
• Exploring choice and control opportunities applied in enrichment and training
• How do larger enriched cages and larger group size affect juvenile mink behaviour?
• How hot is too hot? A cow's view
• How is welfare of transported turkeys affected by cage height?
• Hunger in pregnant sows; the effect of fibre diet and free access to straw
• Improving the welfare of calves through the use of topical anaesthesia
• Insulin and prolactin secretion are boosted within a few hours after parturition in ewes selected for calm temperament
• Introducing herd health and welfare plans on Austrian organic pig farms
• Maternal behaviour in ewes when their offspring experienced stress and pain
• Measurement of feeding motivation in sheep: effects of food restriction
• New approaches to developing humane toxins
• On-farm assessment and genetic improvement of calf temperament
• Personality, hand preference and welfare of primates
• Physiological response to isolation in Merino ewes of differing temperament
• Piglet preference for temperature and flooring, and the use of creep space at different temperatures
• Post-operative behavioural change in rabbits undergoing abdominal surgery: potential indicators of pain
• Preference of dairy cows: indoors vs. pasture
• Preferences of laying hens for different dustbathing substrates
• Relationship between behaviour and brain activity during the inhalation of 90% CO2 in pigs
• Relationship between metabolic – related production diseases and feeding behavior characteristics of dairy cows in early lactation
• Reliability of categorical versus continuous scoring of welfare indicators: lameness in cows as a case study
• Rubber covering for pens with fully slatted floor to improve welfare in finishing cattle
• Rules, Relations and Robotics: using behavioural data for refinement, reduction and replacement of animals in research
• Short-term effects of general anaesthesia and analgesia on the suckling order and behaviour of piglets after castration
• Social animals and philosophical ethology: on the extents of farm animals, welfare and ethics
• The attitudes of UK sheep farmers towards fostering methods: a national survey
• The buck stops here – stress of semen collection
• The effects of a modified stall on gestating sow behavior and performance
• The impact of transition to a new housing system on milking cows’ behaviour patterns
• The use of anaesthesia and analgesia during dehorning and their effects on the welfare of Bos indicus cattle
• The use of heart rate variability as a novel method to differentiate between affective states
• Validation of a novel data logger for recording lying behaviour of dairy cows and its application on robotic milking farms
• Validation of onset data loggers as a tool to measure lying behavior in dairy cattle
• Variability in neonatal behaviour in single and twin lambs
• Voluntary use of showers: effects on behaviour and physiology of dairy cattle in summer

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