ANIMAL BEHAVIOR AND WELL-BEING SYMPOSIUM: Optimizing outcome measures of welfare in dairy cattle assessment
Publication/Journal: Journal of Animal Science
Keywords: agriculture, animal behavior, animal welfare, animal well-being, assessing lameness, assessment, behavior, cattle, cows, dairy, dairy & animal science, ensure high repeatability, farm, herds, lesions, lying, outcome measure, prevalence, time, training-program
2017
Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) sleep study – long-term quantitative research at Dublin Zoo
Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoo and Aquarium Research
Keywords: asian elephant, husbandry, sleep, zoo
2017
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
The behaviour of housed dairy cattle with and without pasture access: A review
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: behaviour, dairy cattle, indoor housing, pasture, precision livestock farming, technologies
2017
Contact with cows during the young age increases social competence and lowers the cardiac stress reaction in dairy calves
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: alternative calf rearing, confrontation, dairy calves, dam rearing, isolation, stress reactivity
2017
Daytime summer access to pasture vs. free-stall barn in dairy cows with year-long outdoor experience: A case study
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: dairy cows, experienced grazer, pasture, year-long outdoor access
2017
Designing Better Water Troughs: Does Trough Color Influence Dairy Cows’ Preference?
Publication/Journal: Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science
Keywords: color, cow, drinker, preference, water
2017
How to measure dairy cows’ responsiveness towards humans in breeding and welfare assessment? A comparison of selected behavioural measures and existing breeding traits
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: breeding traits, dairy cattle, human-animal relationship, reliability, validity
2017
Looking into the eyes of a cow: Can eye whites be used as a measure of emotional state?
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: cows, eye whites, measuring emotions, sentience, welfare assessment
2017
Welfare assessment in traditional mountain dairy farms: above and beyond resource-based measures
Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare
Keywords: alpine farming, animal welfare, animal-based measure, dairy cattle, small-scale farm, tie-stall system
2017