Simple Summary Animal welfare research is intended to address societal concerns
regarding animal care, including natural living concerns. We reviewed the literature on calf …

Rumen sensors provide specific information to help understand rumen functioning in
relation to health disorders and to assist in decision-making for farm management. This …

Personality is often defined as the behaviour of individual animals that is consistent across
contexts and over time. Personality traits may become unstable during stages of ontogeny …

Affective states can be inferred from responses to ambiguous and threatening stimuli, using
Judgement Bias Tasks (JBTs) and Attention Bias Tasks (ABTs). We investigated the …

There is growing evidence that animal personality is linked to a range of productivity traits in
farm animals, including dairy cattle. To date, the methodology for assessing personality traits …

Cattle behavior monitoring is critical for understanding cattle welfare and health status. One
of the most powerful and cost-effective monitoring methods is a neural network-based …

Abstract Calves with Bovine Respiratory Disease (BRD) have different feeding behavior and
activity levels prior to BRD diagnosis when compared to healthy calves, but it is unknown if …

Compared with other domestic animals, little is known about dietary preferences and feed
palatability in equids. Furthermore, it is known that equids exhibit marked lateralization, that …

Little is known about factors affecting individual variability in weaning age, feeding behavior,
and growth of dairy calves. The objectives of this study were to (1) describe early-life …

Although the neonatal and infancy period is short, it is well documented that the early
neonatal environment is critical for appropriate physical, behavioral, and cognitive …