Preference for and behavioural response to environmental enrichment in a small population of sexually mature, commercial boars

Authors: L. V. Sirovica, M. Creamer, K. M. Horback

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: animal welfare, boar, commercial swine, environmental enrichment, single housing, stereotypic behaviour

2019

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR AND WELL-BEING SYMPOSIUM: The Common Swine Industry Audit: Future steps to assure positive on-farm animal welfare utilizing validated, repeatable and feasible animal-based measures

Authors: M. Pairis-Garcia, S. J. Moeller

Publication/Journal: Journal of Animal Science

Keywords: agriculture, audit, dairy & animal science, euthanasia, finishing pigs, sows, swine, system, united-states, welfare

2017

Are consumers wilfully ignorant about animal welfare?

Authors: E. Bell, F. Bailey Norwood, J. L. Lusk

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: animal welfare, consumer attitudes, consumer preferences, gestation crate, swine production, wilful ignorance

2017

Determination of swine euthanasia criteria and analysis of barriers to euthanasia in the United States using expert opinion

Authors: C. R. Mullins, M. D. Pairis-Garcia, K. A. George, R. Anthony, A. K. Johnson, G. J. Coleman, J. L. Rault, S. T. Millman

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: animal welfare, decision-making, education, euthanasia, swine, timeliness

2017

Pain and Laboratory Animals: Publication Practices for Better Data Reproducibility and Better Animal Welfare

Authors: L. Carbone, J. Austin

Publication/Journal: Plos One

Keywords: activity, critical-care, experimental surgical-procedures, killer-cell, liver-transplantation, metastatic colonization, multidisciplinary sciences, neuropathic pain, posterior parietal, reporting guidelines, spinal-cord-injury, systematic reviews

2016

Behavioural evaluation of analgesic efficacy for pain mitigation in lame sows

Authors: M. D. Pairis-Garcia, A. K. Johnson, K. J. Stalder, C. A. Abell, L. A. Karriker, J. F. Coetzee, S. T. Millman

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: animal welfare, behaviour, flunixin meglumine, lameness, meloxicam, swine

2015

Evidence for a link between tail biting and central monoamine metabolism in pigs (Sus scrofa domestica)

Authors: Anna Valros, Pälvi Palander, Mari Heinonen, Camilla Munsterhjelm, Emma Brunberg, Linda Keeling, Petteri Piepponen

Publication/Journal: Physiology & Behavior

Keywords: dopamine, neurotransmission, pig, serotonin, tail-biting

2015

Is Sarcoptes scabiei infection in pigs a major welfare concern? A quantitative assessment of its effect in the host’s nocturnal rubbing and lying behavior

Authors: Elena Goyena, Rocío Ruiz de Ybáñez, Carlos Martínez-Carrasco, Aída Sáez-Acosta, Guillermo Ramis, Alejandro Torrecillas, Francisco Alonso de Vega, Rosa Casais, José Manuel Prieto, Eduardo Berriatua

Publication/Journal: Journal of Veterinary Behavior: Clinical Applications and Research

Keywords: histamine, lying, pigs, rubbing, sarcoptes scabiei

2015

Nitrous oxide as a humane method for piglet euthanasia: Behavior and electroencephalography (EEG)

Authors: Jean-Loup Rault, Nikki Kells, Craig Johnson, Rachel Dennis, Mhairi Sutherland, Donald C. Lay Jr

Publication/Journal: Physiology & Behavior

Keywords: aversive, carbon dioxide, death, gas, swine, welfare

2015

Chewable materials before weaning reduce tail biting in growing pigs

Authors: Helena Telkänranta, Kirsi Swan, Heikki Hirvonen, Anna Valros

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: enrichment, farrowing pen, ontogeny, pig, swine, tail-biting

2014

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