Assessing animal welfare at the farm level: do we care sufficiently about the individual?

Authors: C. Winckler

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: animal welfare, group measures, individual measures, on-farm assessment, purpose, welfare improvement

2019

How Can We Assess Positive Welfare in Ruminants?

Authors: Silvana Mattiello, Monica Battini, Giuseppe De Rosa, Fabio Napolitano, Cathy Dwyer

Publication/Journal: Animals

Keywords: animal welfare, buffaloes, cattle, Five Domains, goats, positive indicators, ruminants, sheep

2019

Redefining human-animal relationships: an evaluation of methods to allow their empirical measurement in zoos

Authors: F. Patel, K. Whitehouse-Tedd, S. J. Ward

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: animal welfare, behaviour, human-animal interactions, human-animal relationships, method, zoo

2019

The use of Qualitative Behavioural Assessment in zoo welfare measurement and animal husbandry change

Authors: P. Rose, L. Riley

Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoo and Aquarium Research

Keywords: animal welfare, environmental enrichment, evidence-based husbandry, positive challenge, qualitative behavioural assessment

2019

Using Qualitative Behaviour Assessment to Investigate Human-Animal Relationships in Zoo-Housed Giraffes (Giraffa camelopardalis)

Authors: Freisha Patel, Francoise Wemelsfelder, Samantha J. Ward

Publication/Journal: Animals

Keywords: animal welfare, free choice profiling, HAR, human-animal interaction, keeper-animal interactions, qba

2019

Investigating individual and social behaviour of the Northern bald ibis (Geronticus eremita): behavioural variety and welfare

Authors: Caterina Spiezio, Valentina Valsecchi, Camillo Sandri, Barbara Regaiolli

Publication/Journal: PeerJ

Keywords: Behavioural Variety Index, ethogram, threskiornithidae, welfare

2018

Application of Free Choice Profiling to assess the emotional state of dogs housed in shelter environments

Authors: Laura Arena, Franҫoise Wemelsfelder, Stefano Messori, Nicola Ferri, Shanis Barnard

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: emotions, free choice profiling, generalised procrustes analysis, qualitative behavioural assessment, shelter dogs, welfare

2017

Assessing dairy cow welfare at the beginning and end of the indoor period using the Welfare Quality® protocol

Authors: S. de Graaf, B. Ampe, F. A. M. Tuyttens

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: animal welfare, dairy cattle, pasturing, welfare assessment, welfare quality®

2017

How to measure dairy cows’ responsiveness towards humans in breeding and welfare assessment? A comparison of selected behavioural measures and existing breeding traits

Authors: Asja Ebinghaus, Silvia Ivemeyer, Vanessa Lauks, Laura Santos, Kerstin Brügemann, Sven König, Ute Knierim

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: breeding traits, dairy cattle, human-animal relationship, reliability, validity

2017

Inter-observer reliability of Qualitative Behavioural Assessments (QBA) of housed sheep in Norway using fixed lists of descriptors

Authors: K. Muri, S. M. Stubsjøen

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: animal welfare, behaviour, fixed list of descriptors, inter-observer reliability, qualitative behavioural assessments, sheep

2017