Dehorning is a commonly performed practice in both beef and dairy cattle industries.
Dehorning or disbudding in cattle is performed for a variety of reasons, including safety for …

This review identifies priorities for beef cattle welfare research in the USA. Based on our
professional expertise and synthesis of existing literature, we identify two themes in …

The objectives of the present case-control study were to assess (1) daily activity patterns
(lying time, number of steps, number of lying bouts, and lying bout duration), and (2) …

Dehorning is a painful husbandry procedure that is commonly performed in dairy calves.
Parenteral meloxicam combined with local anesthesia mitigates the physiological and …

The innovations developed by scientists working on animal welfare are often not adopted in
practice. In this paper, we argue that one important reason for this failure is that the solutions …

Simple Summary Pain recognition in calves is difficult. Pain is assessed either subjectively
or objectively. Subjective pain assessment can be done using ethograms or pain scales, or …

Transportation stress can result in significant economic losses to producers due to
decreased animal productivity and increased medication costs associated with sickness …

Across the international dairy industry, the vast majority of dairy herds have dehorned cows.
Farmers choose to dehorn calves for different reasons such as easier handling of non …

Simple Summary Dairy calves' welfare is rapidly gaining long-deserved attention from
science and dairy farmers' communities. However, the elevated morbidity and mortality rates …

Background Castration is one of the most common procedures performed on beef and dairy
cattle. The objective of the study was to determine the efficacy of meloxicam oral suspension …