Simple Summary The increasing implementation of technological advances originally
developed for video gaming (PlayStation, Xbox) is helping to progress livestock production …

Concerns about the welfare of animals typically include 3 questions: is the animal
functioning well (eg, good health, productivity, etc.), is the animal feeling well (eg, absence …

Lameness is a severe welfare problem and a production-limiting disease in dairy farming.
The objectives of this study were to determine prevalence of lameness and investigate cow …

Timely lameness detection is one of the major and costliest health problems in dairy cattle
that farmers and practitioners haven't yet solved adequately. The primary reason behind this …

This opinion paper considers the relative validity and utility of three concepts: the Five
Freedoms (FF), Five Domains (FD) and Quality of Life (QoL) as tools for the analysis of …

There has been a recent explosion of active concern in matters of animal welfare. The
science behind animal welfare has progressed significantly, new codes of practice and …

In this paper, we describe a novel approach to corporate involvement in on-farm
assessment, driven by the desire to provide a service for dairy producers and to create a …

In recent years, zoos and aquaria have intensified efforts to develop approaches and tools
for assessing the welfare of populations and individual animals in their care. Advances …

We review recent research in one of the oldest and most important applications of ethology:
evaluating animal health. Traditionally, such evaluations have been based on subjective …

Simple Summary Scientific interest in animal welfare was initially driven by popular
emotional, ethics and political concerns. It has now become an important societal question …