Farm animal welfare is a major concern for society and food production. To more accurately
evaluate animal farming in general and to avoid exposing farm animals to poor welfare …

Simple Summary This review attempts to provide information on the various impacts of heat
stress on the production and welfare variables of goats. Goats are predominantly distributed …

Simple Summary The concern for better farm animal welfare has been greatly increasing
among scientists, veterinarians, farmers, consumers, and the general public over many …

Individual animals behave differently from one another, especially when confronting
challenges such as changes in diet (eg weaning), environment (eg moving from pasture to …

This paper reviews animal-based welfare indicators to develop a valid, reliable, and feasible
on-farm welfare assessment protocol for dairy goats. The indicators were considered in the …

This study reports the results of the first investigation on the use of Qualitative Behaviour
Assessment (QBA) in dairy goats, using a fixed-list of descriptors specifically developed for …

Aim: The present work aims to isolate and identify bacteria that cause mastitis in small
ruminants and evaluates the antibacterial activity of some antibiotics, honey, essential oils …

In the UK, it has been suggested that abattoirs are ideal locations to assess the welfare of
sheep as most are slaughtered at abattoirs either as finished lambs or cull ewes. Data from …

Completely updated and revised, and with a new author team, this second edition of Farm
Animal Behaviour continues to provide essential information on normal and stereotypic …

Cognitive enrichment is gaining popularity as a tool to enhance captive animal well‐being,
but research on captive cetaceans is lacking. Dolphin cognition has been studied intensively …