Animal Welfare Assessment : : Novel Approaches and Technologies / / edited by Melissa Hempstead and Danila Marini.

• TeilnehmendeR: Hempstead, Melissa,; Marini, Danila,
• Place / Publishing House: Basel : : MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute,, 2022.
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (260 pages)

This Special Issue provides a collection of recent research and reviews that investigate many areas of welfare assessment, such as novel approaches and technologies used to evaluate the welfare of farmed, captive, or wild animals. Research in this Special Issue includes welfare assessment related to pilot whales, finishing pigs, commercial turkey flocks, and dairy goats; the use of sensors or wearable technologies, such as heart rate monitors to assess sleep in dairy cows, ear tag sensors, and machine learning to assess commercial pig behaviour; non-invasive measures, such as video monitoring of behaviour, computer vision to analyse video footage of red foxes, remote camera traps of free-roaming wild horses, infrared thermography of effort and sport recovery in sport horses; telomere length and regulatory genes as novel biomarkers of stress in broiler chickens; the effect of environment on growth physiology and behaviour of laboratory rare minnows and housing system on anxiety, stress, fear, and immune function of laying hens; and discussions of natural behaviour in farm animal welfare and maintaining health, welfare, and productivity of commercial pig herds.

Table of Contents

About the Editors -- Preface to "Animal Welfare Assessment: Novel Approaches and Technologies" -- Evaluating Potential Cetacean Welfare Indicators from Video of Live Stranded Long-Finned Pilot Whales (Globicephala melas edwardii) -- Health and Welfare Survey of 30 Dairy Goat Farms in the Midwestern United States -- Heart Rate and Heart Rate Variability Change with Sleep Stage in Dairy Cows -- Effects of Housing System on Anxiety, Chronic Stress, Fear, and Immune Function in Bovan Brown Laying Hens -- The "Real Welfare" Scheme: Changes in UK Finishing Pig Welfare since the Introduction of Formal Welfare Outcome Assessment -- The Effect of Environmental Enrichment on Laboratory Rare Minnows (Gobiocypris rarus): Growth, Physiology, and Behavior -- Computer Vision for Detection of Body Posture and Behavior of Red Foxes -- Evaluation of Welfare in Commercial Turkey Flocks of Both Sexes Using the Transect Walk Method -- Recumbency as an Equine Welfare Indicator in Geriatric Horses and Horses with Chronic Orthopaedic Disease -- Telomere Length and Regulatory Genes as Novel Stress Biomarkers and Their Diversities in Broiler Chickens (Gallus gallus domesticus) Subjected to Corticosterone Feeding -- Behavioral Monitoring Tool for Pig Farmers: Ear Tag Sensors, Machine Intelligence, and Technology Adoption Roadmap -- Use of Remote Camera Traps to Evaluate Animal-Based Welfare Indicators in Individual Free-Roaming Wild Horses -- Welfare Health and Productivity in Commercial Pig Herds -- Genetic Parameters of Effort and Recovery in Sport Horses Assessed with Infrared Thermography -- Farm Animals Are Long Away from Natural Behavior: Open Questions and Operative Consequences on Animal Welfare.