Simple Summary Monitoring the welfare of cattle and sheep in large pastures can be time-
consuming, especially if the animals are scattered over large areas in semi-natural pastures …

Simple Summary Cattle parasites live inside or on the body of beef cattle. The most common
beef parasites include intestinal roundworms, flatworms and ticks. The act of parasitizing …

Grazing systems have great potential to promote animal welfare by allowing animals to
express natural behaviours, but they also present risks to the animals. Diseases caused by …

During disease or toxin challenges, the behavioral activities of grazing animals alter in
response to adverse situations, potentially providing an indicator of their welfare status …

With the emphasis on anthelmintics for worm management,“refugia” are defined primarily by
the proportions of a given parasite population on pasture (mainly worm eggs and larvae) or …

The management of parasitic nematodes calls for a shift from conventional, indiscriminate,
anthelmintic use to a more precise approach, directed by diagnostics. We should accept …

Animals suffering from parasitism typically display altered grazing behaviour and a voluntary
reduction in feed intake. These changes are potentially important as indicators of disease …

We investigated the effects of gastrointestinal nematode (GIN) challenge on activity in first
season grazing lambs naturally exposed to two different levels of multispecies GIN …

Sickness behaviour has been suggested as an applicable indicator for monitoring disease.
Deviating feeding behaviour and activity can provide information about animals' health and …

This project aimed to evaluate a novel method for monitoring the health of grazing cattle.
The method studied in this paper is based on an unmanned, automatic precision weighing …