Animal health and welfare: costs and benefits

Date: 05 June ‘05; 14:00 - 18:00 hours
Chairperson: Stott (UK)

Theatre

• Economic changes under the CAP: the implications for animal science and animal welfare (Seabrook, M.F.)

• The challenge of competing goals: animal welfare, the environment, human health and the profitability of livestock production (Milne, C.E., A.W. Stott and G.E. Dalton)

• Integration of animal welfare in the food quality chain: from public concern to improved welfare and transparent quality (Blokhuis, H.J., R.B. Jones, R. Geers, M. Miele and I. Veissier)

• Assessing the costs of infection by Bovine Viral Diarrheoa Virus (BVDV) in dairy herds (Fourichon, C., F. Beaudeau, N. Bareille and H. Seegers)

• Economic value of mastitis incidence in dairy herds in the Czech Republic (Wolfová, M., M. Stipková and J. Wolf)

• Variation in milk yield associated with the cow-status to Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis (Map) infection in French dairy herds (Beaudeau, F., M. Belliard, A. Joly and H. Seegers)

• Economic analysis of foot-and-mouth disease in Turkey-I: Acquisition of required data via Delphi expert opinion survey (Senturk, B. and C. Yalcin)

• Economic analysis of foot-and-mouth disease in Turkey- II: An assessment of financial losses in infected animals and cost of disease at national level (Yalcin, C. and B. Senturk)

• Economics of sub-clinical helminthosis control through anthelmintics and supplementation in Menz and Awassi-Menz crossbred sheep in Ethiopia (Tibbo, M., K. Aragaw, J. Philipsson, B. Malmfors, A. Näsholm, W. Ayalew and J.E.O. Rege)

Poster

• Solid dosage medicine for poultry (Ustyanich, A.E., M.A. Ustyanich and E.P. Ustyanich)

• Clinicopathological Studies on Theileria Annulata Infection in Siwa Oasis in Egypt (Abdou, T.A., T.R. Abou-El-naga and M.A. Mahmoud)

• Economic aspects of Cystic Ovarian Disease treatment (Farhoodi, M. and K. Valipoor)

• Duration effect of propylene glycol oral drenching on animal health and production in transition dairy cows (Malek Mohammadi, H.A., H.R. Rahmani and G.R. Ghorbani)

• Effect of two type of stress on the plasmatic levels of cortisol and some haematic parameters (Mura, M.C., V. Carcangiu, G.M. Vacca, A. Parmeggiani and P.P. Bini)

• Dairy cattle show preferences between different types of cow-brushes (Tuyttens, F., K. Van den Bossche, L. Lens, J. Mertens and B. Sonck)

• Yield losses associated with clinical mastitis in Swedish dairy cows (Hagnestam, C., U. Emanuelson, H. Andersson, J. Philipsson and B. Berglund)

• Teat closure and condition after dry-off in high producing dairy cows (Odensten, M.O., K. Holtenius and K. Persson Waller)

• The map of hip dysplasia of the Hungarian police dog population (Hegedüs, E. and M. Horvai Szabó)