An automated positioning system for monitoring chickens’ location: Accuracy and registration success in a free-range area
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: accuracy, outdoor, poultry, signal reception, ultra-wideband, vegetation
2018
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
Assessing dairy cow welfare at the beginning and end of the indoor period using the Welfare Quality® protocol
Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare
Keywords: animal welfare, dairy cattle, pasturing, welfare assessment, welfare quality®
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
Fit for transport? Broiler chicken fitness assessment for transportation to slaughter
Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare
Keywords: animal welfare, animal-based welfare measure, broiler chicken, fitness-for-transport assessment, physiological stress, pre-slaughter phase
2017
Opinion of applied ethologists on expectation bias, blinding observers and other debiasing techniques
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: *cognitive bias, animal behaviour, blinding, confirmation bias, context effects, observer bias
2016
Assessment of welfare of Brazilian and Belgian broiler flocks using the Welfare Quality protocol
Publication/Journal: Poultry Science
Keywords: agriculture, animal welfare, behavior, chickens, country of origin, dairy & animal science, dermatitis, farm, performance, poultry meat, slaughter, thirst, trade, welfare quality®
2015
Behaviour, wounds, weight loss and adrenal weight of rabbit does as affected by semi-group housing
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: aggression, locomotion, skin lesions, social behaviour, stress
2015
Evaluating the effect of semi-group housing of rabbit does on their offspring’s fearfulness: can we use the open-field test?
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: anxiety, novel object, novelty, open field, pre-natal effects., sociality
2015
Summertime use of natural versus artificial shelter by cattle in nature reserves
Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare
Keywords: animal welfare, artificial shelter, cattle, nature conservation, temperate climate, vegetation
2015