“…An efficient selection is able to improve both animal welfare and quality and safety of animal products ABSTRACT: Mastitis is an infectious disease affecting the mammary gland, leading to inflammatory reactions and to heavy economic losses due to milk production decrease. …”
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“…Osteoporosis, characterized by bone mass loss and increased risk of fractures, is a serious problem in the egg industry, affecting both productivity and animal welfare. Nonetheless, the mechanisms of age-related osteoporosis remain unknown. …”
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“…Change in telomere length may represent a useful biomarker in animal welfare studies.…”
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“…It not only results in severe economic losses but also raises concerns over animal welfare and antimicrobial resistance and remains an important zoonotic agent in some countries. …”
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“…These stressors are likely to converge by inferring animal welfare and economic profitability in the food animal industry. …”
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“…The results of this research validate the use of geospatial analysis to understand relationships between human vulnerability and animal welfare, but also highlight the need for further interventions in marginalized populations to increase retention of animals.…”
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“…On-farm euthanasia of poultry is a necessity for minimizing disease spread and removing sick or injured birds to maintain optimum animal welfare. There are numerous methods that are approved for euthanasia of poultry by organizations like the American Veterinary Medical Association; however, all approved methods are not easily carried out on-farm or as effective as one another. …”
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“…Working equids play an essential role in supporting livelihoods, providing resilience and income security to people around the world, yet their welfare is often poor. Consequently, animal welfare focussed NGOs employ a range of initiatives aimed at improving standards of working equid welfare. …”
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“…Dairy goat animal welfare assessment protocols have been developed and conducted in Europe and the United Kingdom for dairy goats; however, there are no published reports of large-scale welfare assessment for dairy goats on farms in the Midwestern United States (US). …”
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“…These could be easily obtained on an individual basis throughout a cow’s productive life by dairy herd improvement organizations, thus providing potentially relevant information for the dairy farmer at three levels: economics (reproductive performance), animal welfare (disease detection), and environment (methane production). …”
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“…Therefore, new concepts in hygienic standardization need to be developed that take animal welfare as well as scientific value into account. …”
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“…With a few exceptions, the species on offer were of little present conservation concern, however, many unknowns remain on the potential animal welfare, biosecurity, legal implications, and most importantly public health risks associated with this dark trade.…”
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“…An increasingly precise understanding of thermoregulation will allow us to design and apply practical methods in fields like animal science and clinical medicine without compromising levels of animal welfare. The results obtained should not only increase the chances of survival but also improve quality of life and animal production.…”
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“…SIMPLE SUMMARY: Human–animal interactions are an important focus of modern animal welfare research. A subset of this interest includes animal–visitor interactions that occur in zoos. …”
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“…This divide is further dissected by the promotion of the consumption of kangaroo products as an ecological good marred by valid concerns about hygiene and animal welfare. In the last decade, the fervour to suppress and micro-manage populations of some kangaroo species has mounted. …”
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“…It is critically important that any pest control method is both highly effective (i.e., virulent, in the context of viral biocontrols) and has minimal animal welfare impacts. To determine whether RHDV2 might be a suitable candidate biocontrol agent, we investigated the virulence and disease progression of a naturally occurring Australian recombinant RHDV2 in both 5-week-old and 11-week-old New Zealand White laboratory rabbits after either high or low dose oral infection. …”
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“…One strategy often adopted to ensure animal welfare is environmental enrichment. In this study, we investigated the impact of different nesting materials (leaves and branches, long grass, cotton sheets, and shredded newspaper) upon the welfare of chimpanzees housed at Tacugama Chimpanzee Sanctuary (Sierra Leone). …”
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“…With the promotion of the intensive breeding model, the incidence of leg diseases has risen in fast-growing commercial broilers with higher body weight, seriously affecting their feed efficiency and causing animal welfare problems. Femoral head necrosis (FHN) is the most common leg disease in broilers. …”
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“…Our results can be applied in movement ecology, zoology and conservation, where habitat specific movement performance between predators or prey may be critical to managing species of conservation significance, or in veterinary and agricultural fields, where early detection of movement pathologies can improve animal welfare.…”
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“…Further investigations into the reasons behind individual sensitivity of meat-purpose chickens to specific weather conditions would increase the understanding of their preferences and needs, which over time will improve animal welfare.…”
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