The importance of drinking water for production and animal welfare is widely recognized, but
surveys and animal welfare assessment schemes suggest that many dairy calves and dairy …

As farm animal welfare is high on the political and societal agendas of many countries,
considerable pressure exists to establish audit programs in which farm animal welfare is …

In the previous chapters, we discussed the way that the welfare of cattle can be affected by
how they are housed and fed as well as by the short-term procedures that are done to them …

The water intake of 41 lactating dairy cows managed according to current dairy farm
practices was individually and continuously monitored to 1) investigate drinking behavior …

A survey on dairy production in family dairy farms in the northwest of Santa Catarina, Brazil,
was carried out to assess husbandry practices and elements of the living environment that …

Abstract The Welfare Quality multi-criteria evaluation (WQ-ME) model aggregates scores of
single welfare measures into an overall assessment for the level of animal welfare in dairy …

Climate change leads to several environmental stresses that affects livestock production. In
order to re-store the productive potential the animals need to adapt to the existing climatic …

The aim of this cross-sectional study was to describe the incidence risk of dystocia, retained
placenta (RP), pathological recumbence (down cow), the prevalence of metritis and …

The effects of water trough location and presence of shade on the behaviour of cows on
pasture were investigated. The impact of social hierarchy on cows' use of shade and the …

Heat-stressed dairy cows on pasture will compete for resources that aid cooling, but it is not
known how heat stress affects the competition for water by indoor-housed cows. The aim of …