Author: Ambler, Verity Published: 2007 Description: Animal Welfare Essay: Looks at the management of such factors as exhaustion, disease and poor body condition in horses working in hot and stressful conditions.
Author: Chong, Amanda Published: 2008 Description: Investigates different ideas for reducing heat stress in large production animals.
Author: Crowter, Philippa Published: 2007 Description: Animal Welfare Essay: Looks at ways in which diet, stocking density, flock size, management and other factors combine in the development of feather pecking in laying hens.
Author: Hoekman, Brita Published: 2008 Description: A discussion of stress in laboratory rats. Methods of measuring stress are discussed, especially new behavioural and physiological parameters that have potentila welfare benefits for laboratory housed rats.
Author: Baker, Lawrence Published: 2007 Description: Animal Welfare Essay: Investigates how improvements to group housing practices in piggeries can reduce aggressive behaviour and improve reproductive performance
Author: Poyzer, Liisa Published: 2008 Description: Examines the loose farrowing system as a way of providing improved welfare in pigs. This system allows more space so pigs can express normal behaviour, while still not compromising production.
Author: Fleischer, Stephen Published: 2007 Description: Animal Welfare Essay: Looks at ways of reducing boar taint (the odour present in meat of non-castrated pigs) with a view to phasing out the practie of castration.
Author: Peam, Helen Published: 2007 Description: Animal Welfare Essay: Investigates alternatives to the practice of mulesing to control fly strike. Outlines the need for a method that does not compromise sheep welfare, but which serves the production goals of farmers.
Author: Yee, Foong Lai Published: 2007 Description: Animal Welfare Essay: Discusses three papers that investigate the welfare of freestall-housed Friesian cows on different types of flooring.
Author: Healy, Michael Published: 2007 Description: Animal Welfare Essay: Discusses recent developments in our understanding of pain in cattle, and overall implications for cattle welfare of recent findings
