Welfare Assessment and Enhancement

Wednesday, 8 July 2009 09:10 - 10:30, Meeting Room 1 & 2

Chair Eberhard von Borell Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Department of Animal Husbandry & EcologyGermany
Effects of pre- and postnatal flavour exposure on stress-related behaviour and postweaning performance in piglets
  • Marije Oostindjer, Adaptation Physiology group, Wageningen University, The Netherlands
Effects of split marketing on agonistic behaviour and carcass characteristics of entire male pigs and gilts in a restricted feeding system
  • Sabine Conte, Queens University Belfast, Belfast, Co Antrim BT9 7BL, United Kingdom
Effect of age on physiology and recovery behaviour of calves transported for 10 hours in individual pens
  • Mariko C Lauber, Animal Welfare Science Centre, The University of Melbourne and the Department of Primary Industries, Australia
Different roughages to organic growing/finishing pigs - influence on activity behaviour and social interactions
  • Magdalena Høøk Presto, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Dept of Animal Nutrition and Management, Sweden
Effects of alternative housing systems on dry sow well-being
  • Ashley E DeDecker, University of Illinois, United States
Problem solving in dingoes (Canis lupus dingo): an example using the detour task
  • Bradley P Smith, University of South Australia, Australia