Welfare Assessment and Enhancement

Thursday, 9 July 2009 09:10 - 10:30, Meeting Room 1 & 2

Chair Tina M Widowski University of GuelphCanada
How is welfare of transported turkeys affected by cage height?
  • Anette Wichman, Department of Production Animal Medicine, Finland
Effectiveness of different on-farm killing methods for cull turkeys
  • Marisa A Erasmus, Department of Animal and Poultry Science, University of Guelph, Canada
Elevated plasma corticosterone in domesticated hens affects their offspring’s behaviour and physiology both in youth and adulthood
  • Rie Henriksen, Behavioural Biology Research Group, The Netherlands
Preferences of laying hens for different dustbathing substrates
  • Britta Scholz, Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Institute of Animal Welfare and Animal Husbandry, Celle, Germany, Germany
The use of anaesthesia and analgesia during dehorning and their effects on the welfare of Bos indicus cattle
  • Stephanie Sinclair, Cooperative Research Centre for Beef Genetic Technologies/Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia
The buck stops here – stress of semen collection
  • Aprille R Chadwick, Animal Biology, Univerity of Western Australia, Australia