Monitoring the behavior and habitat use of animals to enhance welfare using the ZooMonitor app
Publication/Journal: Animal Behavior and Cognition
Keywords: animal welfare, behavior analysis, behavioral monitoring, ethology, observational data, zoo
2019
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
Evaluation of a dustbathing substrate and straw bales as environmental enrichments in commercial broiler housing
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: broiler chicken, dustbathing, environmental enrichment, leg health, welfare
2018
Dutch Consumers’ Willingness to Pay for Broiler Welfare
Publication/Journal: Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science
Keywords: broiler welfare, choice experiment, the Netherlands, willingness-to-pay
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
Exposing avian embryos to light affects post-hatch anti-predator fear responses
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: avian, embryo, fear, incubation, lateralization, light
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
Hot chicks, cold feet
Publication/Journal: Physiology & Behavior
Keywords: animal welfare, chicken, footpad, infrared thermography, stress-induced hyperthermia, thermal imaging
2017
Behavioural responses of broiler chickens during low atmospheric pressure stunning
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: animal welfare, humane slaughter, hypobaric hypoxia, loss of posture, low atmosphere pressure stunning
2016