Does animal welfare influence dairy farm efficiency? A two-stage approach
Publication/Journal: Journal of Dairy Science
Keywords: agriculture, animal welfare, calving intervals, cows, dairy & animal science, dairy farm, data envelopment analysis, determinants, disorders, efficiency, food science & technology, lameness, milk production, nonparametric frontier models, profitability, technical, technical efficiency
2015
Behavioural changes in dairy cows with lameness in an automatic milking system
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: automatic milking system, feeding, lameness, milking visits, rumination
2014
Docking the value of pigmeat? Prevalence and financial implications of welfare lesions in Irish slaughter pigs
Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare
Keywords: animal welfare, carcase, economics, meat inspection, pig, tail-biting
2014
Attitudes of Canadian beef producers toward animal welfare
Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare
Keywords: animal welfare, attitudes, beef, canada, qualitative, values
2012
Economic evaluation of high welfare indoor farrowing systems for pigs
Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare
Keywords: animal welfare, economics, farrowing, housing systems, husbandry, pig
2012
Memory and foraging theory: chimpanzee utilization of optimality heuristics in the rank-order recovery of hidden foods
Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour
Keywords: communication, evolutionary ecology, handling time, movement ecology, prey encounter, primate cognition
2012
Salmon Fishing by Bears and the Dawn of Cooperative Predation
Publication/Journal: Journal of Comparative Psychology
Keywords: black bear, onchorynchous, optimal foraging, salmon, ursus americanus
2012
Transportation of beef cattle to slaughterhouses and how this relates to animal welfare and carcase bruising in an extensive production system
Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare
Keywords: animal welfare, beef cattle, carcase damage, extensive production system, meat quality, transport
2010
The Importance of Interactions Among Nutrition, Seasonality and Socio-sexual Factors in the Development of Hormone-free Methods for Controlling Fertility
Publication/Journal: Reproduction in Domestic Animals
Keywords: animal welfare, environmental management, fertility, human health, nutrition, seasonality, socio-sexual factors
2008