Heat stress and goat welfare: Adaptation and production considerations

V Sejian, MV Silpa, MR Reshma Nair, C Devaraj… - Animals, 2021 - mdpi.com
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 …

How can we assess positive welfare in ruminants?

S Mattiello, M Battini, G De Rosa, F Napolitano… - Animals, 2019 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary The concern for better farm animal welfare has been greatly increasing
among scientists, veterinarians, farmers, consumers, and the general public over many …

Evaluation of animal-based indicators to be used in a welfare assessment protocol for sheep

SE Richmond, F Wemelsfelder… - Frontiers in Veterinary …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Sheep are managed under a variety of different environments (continually outdoors, partially
outdoors with seasonal or diurnal variation, continuously indoors) and for different purposes …

Understanding natural behavior to improve dairy goat (Capra hircus) management systems

G Zobel, HW Neave, J Webster - Translational animal science, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Public interest is stimulating farming industries to improve animal welfare in production
systems. Indoor housing of ruminants has received scrutiny because of perceived …

Humans and goats: Improving knowledge for a better relationship

S Celozzi, M Battini, E Prato-Previde, S Mattiello - Animals, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary A good relationship between humans (eg, farmers, owners) and farm
animals is vital for the well-being of both parties: on the one hand, people are satisfied with …

Results of testing the prototype of the AWIN welfare assessment protocol for dairy goats in 30 intensive farms in Northern Italy

M Battini, S Barbieri, A Vieira, G Stilwell… - Italian Journal of …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
The AWIN project aimed at developing an on-farm welfare assessment protocol for adult
dairy goats. A prototype protocol was tested in 30 intensive dairy goat farms to evaluate its …

Welfare conditions of donkeys in Europe: initial outcomes from on-farm assessment

F Dai, E Dalla Costa, LMA Murray, E Canali, M Minero - Animals, 2016 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary This paper aims to present the first outcomes of data collected using the
AWIN welfare assessment protocol for donkeys in 20 EU donkey facilities. Three assessors …

Exploring positive welfare measures: preliminary findings from a prototype protocol in loose housing dairy cattle farms

S Mattiello, S Celozzi, FM Soli, M Battini - Frontiers in Veterinary …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Introduction Following the increasing interest about the development of indicators of positive
welfare and affective state in farm animals, the aim of this research is to present some …

[HTML][HTML] Tilapia on-farm welfare assessment protocol for semi-intensive production systems

AS Pedrazzani, MH Quintiliano, F Bolfe… - Frontiers in Veterinary …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The aim of this study was to develop and test a tilapia on-farm welfare assessment protocol,
based on Brazilian semi-intensive production systems. The study included two mains steps …

[HTML][HTML] Prevalence and risk factors associated with gastrointestinal nematode infection in goats raised in Baybay city, Leyte, Philippines

APM Rupa, HP Portugaliza - Veterinary World, 2016 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Aim: Gastrointestinal parasitism is a serious constraint affecting goat production in the
Philippines. This study aimed to determine the prevalence and associated risk factors of …