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Animals, Volume 8, Issue 3

March 2018 - 12 articles

Cover Story: On encountering animals that appear to be suffering, we may be moved to estimate their welfare. Such an informal assessment may have merit, but will rely on our past experience, a gut reaction or an anthropomorphic estimate, all of which come with the risk of bias. A preferable approach requires a framework to ensure comparable consideration of the impact of the animal’s state from one context to another. A leading example of such a framework is David Mellor’s Five Domains model.
This report describes the deliberations of a 4-day workshop that assessed the adverse welfare impacts of interventions across a range of 14 different contexts including husbandry, veterinary care and training. Using an adaptation of the domain-based welfare assessment model, a panel of 16 horse welfare professionals assessed perceived harm associated with 116 interventions commonly applied to horses and ponies. View this paper
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Articles (12)

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
9,210 Views
17 Pages

Evaluation of Two Models of Non-Penetrating Captive Bolt Devices for On-Farm Euthanasia of Turkeys

  • Caitlin R. Woolcott,
  • Stephanie Torrey,
  • Patricia V. Turner,
  • Lilia Serpa,
  • Karen Schwean-Lardner and
  • Tina M. Widowski

20 March 2018

On-farm euthanasia is a critical welfare issue in the poultry industry and can be particularly difficult to perform on mature turkeys due to their size. We evaluated the efficacy of two commercially available non-penetrating captive bolt devices, the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
72 Citations
25,601 Views
27 Pages

Using the Five Domains Model to Assess the Adverse Impacts of Husbandry, Veterinary, and Equitation Interventions on Horse Welfare

  • Paul McGreevy,
  • Jeannine Berger,
  • Nic De Brauwere,
  • Orla Doherty,
  • Anna Harrison,
  • Julie Fiedler,
  • Claudia Jones,
  • Sue McDonnell,
  • Andrew McLean and
  • Lindsay Nakonechny
  • + 8 authors

18 March 2018

The aim of this study was to conduct a series of paper-based exercises in order to assess the negative (adverse) welfare impacts, if any, of common interventions on domestic horses across a broad range of different contexts of equine care and trainin...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
5,602 Views
15 Pages

Evaluation of Different Gases and Gas Combinations for On-Farm Euthanasia of Pre-Weaned Pigs

  • Nikki Kells,
  • Ngaio Beausoleil,
  • Craig Johnson and
  • Mhairi Sutherland

16 March 2018

The aim of this research was to evaluate the welfare of pre-weaned piglets euthanised using three different gas treatments: 100% carbon dioxide (CO2), 100% argon (Ar) or a mixture of 60% Ar/40% carbon dioxide (Ar/CO2). Two studies (n = 5 piglets/trea...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
8,252 Views
14 Pages

Welfare Risks of Repeated Application of On-Farm Killing Methods for Poultry

  • Jessica E. Martin,
  • Dale A. Sandercock,
  • Victoria Sandilands,
  • Julian Sparrey,
  • Laurence Baker,
  • Nick H. C. Sparks and
  • Dorothy E. F. McKeegan

15 March 2018

Council Regulation (EC) no. 1099/2009 on the protection of animals at the time of killing restricts the use of manual cervical dislocation in poultry on farms in the European Union (EU) to birds weighing up to 3 kg and 70 birds per person per day. Ho...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
6,439 Views
13 Pages

Evaluation of Alternative Euthanasia Methods of Neonatal Chickens

  • Shailesh Gurung,
  • Dima White,
  • Gregory Archer,
  • Dan Zhao,
  • Yuhua Farnell,
  • J. Allen Byrd,
  • E. David Peebles and
  • Morgan Farnell

9 March 2018

Hatched male layer chicks are currently euthanized by maceration in the United States. Public concerns on the use of maceration have led to the search for alternative methods. We hypothesized that gas inhalation and low atmospheric pressure stunning...

  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
66 Citations
12,566 Views
16 Pages

A Review of Success Factors for Piglet Fostering in Lactation

  • Jena G. Alexopoulos,
  • David S. Lines,
  • Suzanne Hallett and
  • Kate J. Plush

9 March 2018

Piglet movement from one sow to another, or fostering, is required in modern pig farming but there is little available literature on the most effective strategy. In this review, we focus on the behavioural and physiological mechanisms responsible for...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
17,602 Views
13 Pages

Factors Informing Outcomes for Older Cats and Dogs in Animal Shelters

  • Sloane Hawes,
  • Josephine Kerrigan and
  • Kevin Morris

7 March 2018

With advances in veterinary medicine that can increase the lifespan of cats and dogs and the effectiveness of spay/neuter programs in reducing the juvenile population of pets, animal shelters are experiencing an increasing population of older compani...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
5,693 Views
14 Pages

28 February 2018

Directive 2010/63/EU (henceforth “Directive”) on the protection of animals used for scientific purposes mandates that every project proposal in EU member states involving procedures on living non-human vertebrates and cephalopods has to be approved i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
6,824 Views
16 Pages

Effects of Topical Anaesthetic and Buccal Meloxicam Treatments on Concurrent Castration and Dehorning of Beef Calves

  • Dominique Van der Saag,
  • Peter White,
  • Lachlan Ingram,
  • Jaime Manning,
  • Peter Windsor,
  • Peter Thomson and
  • Sabrina Lomax

28 February 2018

The use of pain relief during castration and dehorning of calves on commercial beef operations can be limited by constraints associated with the delivery of analgesic agents. As topical anaesthetic (TA) and buccal meloxicam (MEL) are now available in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
10,660 Views
13 Pages

27 February 2018

Previous research has shown that housing insecurity contributes to animal relinquishment and that tenants with dogs face disadvantages in the rental market. Still, little is known about how dog owners navigate rental markets, nor how landlords and pr...

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