The legitimacy of the dominant intensive meat production system with respect to the issue of
animal welfare is increasingly being questioned by stakeholders across the meat supply …

Animal welfare is increasingly important for the Australian livestock industries, to maintain
social licence to practice as well as ensuring market share overseas. Improvement of animal …

Behaviour is a significant component of well-being and should be properly considered in a
pig welfare assessment. However, interpretation of variations in behaviour is usually not …

Simple Summary The continuous development of innovative technologies and the large-
scale implementation of these solutions on farms are dynamically influencing the so-called …

Objective and issue-neutral qualitative assessments of livestock behavior could provide a
powerful assessment of welfare, augmenting quantitative measures such as autonomic and …

This research explores the extent to which different farm management practices influence
the perceived animal friendliness of broiler production systems, and how this differs between …

Since the beginning of the farm animal welfare debate half a century ago, the focus has
been on the negative side of animal welfare, with most research studying the harms induced …

In intensive pig farming of Western and Southern Europe, welfare concerns are still often
related to barren environments and crowded conditions. Pig producers need to balance the …

A score system was used to evaluate pain, distress and discomfort in healthy pigs and pigs
with two different diseases: lameness and rectal prolapse. In addition, correlations between …

This study aimed to assess the relationship between quantitative assessments of clinical
signs of respiratory disease (recorded manually and automatically) and the prevalence of …