Session 12. Indicators and analysis of risk factors in livestock welfare

Date: 24 August '09; 14:00 - 18:00 hours
Chairperson: Bareille (FRA)

 

Theatre Session 12

• On-farm welfare assessment in cattle and risk factors for selected welfare problems: the Welfare Quality® approach
  Winckler, C. and Knierim, U.

• Risk based indicators used for assessing animal welfare in livestock herds
  Nielsen, T.R., Bonde, M.K., Thomsen, P.T. and Sørensen, J.T.

• Potential of routinely collected farm data to monitor dairy cattle welfare
  De Vries, M., Bokkers, E.A.M., Dijkstra, T., Van Schaik, G. and De Boer, I.J.M.

• Development of a welfare assessment system on farm and at the slaughterhouse in pigs (Welfare Quality® project)
  Temple, D., Velarde, A., Manteca, X., Llonch, P., Rodriguez, P. and Dalmau, A.

• The welfare of sheep under extensive management systems
  Goddard, P., Stott, A., Waterhouse, A., Milne, C. and Phillips, K.

• Risk factors related with health and behaviour traits in welfare of horses
  Distl, O.

• Herd- and sow level risk factors for shoulder ulcers in lactating sows
  Bonde, M.

• The identification of farm characteristics, and welfare associated management practices, as potential risk factors for the presence of pathologies and Salmonella in slaughtered finishing pigs
  Sanchez-Vazquez, M., Smith, R., Gunn, G., Lewis, F. and Edwards, S.A.

• Optimising use of labour at lambing time for more profit and higher welfare in extensive sheep farming systems
  Kirwan, S. and Stott, A.W.

• Farmers talking about animal welfare
  Karkinen, K.T. and Saarinen, K.

 

Poster Session 12

• Welfare evaluation system in goats bred under extensive conditions
  Rodero, E., Perez Almero, J.L., Cruz, V., Sanchez, M.D. and Alcalde, M.J.

• Pre-slaughter conditions, genetic-stress susceptibility, meat quality, and animal welfare in pigs: results from a Spanish survey
  Guàrdia, M.D., Estany, J., Balasch, S., Tor, M., Oliver, M.A., Gispert, M. and Diestre, A.

• Risk factors for sow and piglet welfare indicators in an on-farm monitoring system
  Scott, K., Binnendijk, G.P., Edwards, S.A., Guy, J.H., Kiezebrink, M.C. and Vermeer, H.M.

• Impact of heat stress on production, energy efficiency and fertility of Holstein cows in pasture based systems in North West Germany
  König, S., Schierenbeck, S., Schmitz, C., Brügemann, K., V. Borstel, U.U. and Gauly, M.

• Microclimatic indexes to compare different dairy cows housing systems in different climatic conditions
  Menesatti, P., D’andrea, S., Cavalieri, A., Baldi, M., Lanini, M., Vitali, A., Lacetera, N., Bernabucci, U. and Nardone, A.

• Variation of milk yield in relation to temperature humidity index in different dairy cow housing systems: a preliminary Time-lagged approach
  Aguzzi, J., Vitali, A., D’andrea, S., Cavalieri, A. and Menesatti, P.

• How ruminants adapt their feeding behaviour to diets with high-risk for acidosis
  Mialon, M.M., Commun, L., Martin, C., Micol, D. and Veissier, I.