Assessing animal welfare at the farm level: do we care sufficiently about the individual?
Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare
Keywords: animal welfare, group measures, individual measures, on-farm assessment, purpose, welfare improvement
2019
The development of fault bars in domestic chickens (Gallus gallus domesticus) increases with acute stressors and individual propensity: implications for animal welfare
Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare
Keywords: animal welfare, feather growth, gallus gallus domesticus, psychological stress, stress response, welfare indicator
2019
Effects of environmental enrichment on activity and lameness in commercial broiler production
Publication/Journal: Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science
Keywords: behavioral activity, broiler chickens, environmental enrichment, lameness, poultry welfare
2019
Improving Leg Health in Broiler Chickens: A Systematic Review of the Effect of Environmental Enrichment
Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare
Keywords: animal welfare, broiler chicken, environmental enrichment, leg health, light, stocking density
2019
Is the rotarod test an objective alternative to the gait score for evaluating walking ability in chickens?
Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare
Keywords: animal welfare, broiler, domestic fowl, gait score, motor co-ordination, walking ability
2019
An automated positioning system for monitoring chickens’ location: Effects of wearing a backpack on behaviour, leg health and production
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: body weight, broiler chicken, habituation, position monitoring, ultra-wideband, welfare
2018
Evaluation of a dustbathing substrate and straw bales as environmental enrichments in commercial broiler housing
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: broiler chicken, dustbathing, environmental enrichment, leg health, welfare
2018
Dutch Consumers’ Willingness to Pay for Broiler Welfare
Publication/Journal: Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science
Keywords: broiler welfare, choice experiment, the Netherlands, willingness-to-pay
2017
Effect of free-range access, shelter type and weather conditions on free-range use and welfare of slow-growing broiler chickens
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: artificial shelter, fearfulness, leg health, outdoor, poultry, short rotation coppice
2017
Exposing avian embryos to light affects post-hatch anti-predator fear responses
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: avian, embryo, fear, incubation, lateralization, light
2017