How Can We Assess Positive Welfare in Ruminants?
Publication/Journal: Animals
Keywords: animal welfare, buffaloes, cattle, Five Domains, goats, positive indicators, ruminants, sheep
2019
Positive perception of human stroking by lambs: Qualitative behaviour assessment confirms previous interpretation of quantitative data
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: human-animal relationship, lamb, qualitative behaviour assessment, stroking
2017
Environmentally enriching American mink (Neovison vison) increases lymphoid organ weight and skeletal symmetry, and reveals differences between two sub-types of stereotypic behaviour
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: american mink, animal welfare, carnivores, corticosteroids, enrichment, fluctuating asymmetry, immune system, stereotypic behaviour
2016
Application of the Welfare Quality protocol to dairy buffalo farms: Prevalence and reliability of selected measures
Publication/Journal: Journal of Dairy Science
Keywords: agriculture, behavior, bubalus-bubalis, cattle, cows, dairy & animal science, dairy buffalo, food science & technology, housing system, milk, parameters, protein, welfare monitoring, welfare quality®
2015
A continuous recording approach to qualitative behaviour assessment in dairy buffaloes (Bubalus bubalis)
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: continuous recording, mediterranean dairy buffalo, observer training, qualitative behaviour assessment, temporal dominant behavioural expression
2015
Effect of pre-partum habituation to milking routine on behaviour and lactation performance of buffalo heifers
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: behaviour, buffalo heifer, milking, pre-partum habituation
2014
Qualitative behaviour assessment of dairy buffaloes (Bubalus bubalis)
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: buffalo, free choice profiling, qualitative behaviour assessment, reliability
2012
Welfare implications of artificial rearing and early weaning in sheep
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: animal welfare, artificial-rearing, behaviour, lamb, weaning
2008
Human and animal behaviour in dairy buffalo at milking
Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare
Keywords: animal welfare, dairy buffalo, human-animal relationship, long-term consistency, milking, oxytocin
2007
Lambs prevented from suckling their mothers display behavioral, immune and endocrine disturbances
Publication/Journal: Physiology & Behavior
Keywords: behavior, cortisol, depression, immunity, lamb, prevented suckling
2003