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Intro Flashcards

1
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What is animal welfare not

A

Animal rights

Animal health

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What is animal welfare

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Animal is healthy and has what they want. Feel good about their environment
Quality of life scale where euthanasia is neutral

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3
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How measure welfare

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Immunology
Production measures
Health
Physiology
Behaviour
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4
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How to measure production

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Growth
Fertility
Fat &a protein
Milk yield

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5
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Immunology measures

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Immunity

Blood sampling

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6
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Health measures

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Symptoms
Injury
Healed injuries
Health records

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Physiology measures

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All others (except behaviour?) all physiological
Body temp
Brain/neurotransmitter
HPA
SA
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Measuring the SA axis

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Heart rate
Adrenaline
Adrenal medulla pathology
Activation of brain regions

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9
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Key HPA chemical released

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Cortisol

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10
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Measure cortisol

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Blood plasma
Saliva
Urine
Milk
Faeces
Hair/will/ fur
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11
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Why are home pen observations good

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Watch behaviour without influencing
Can do live or video
Can allow to change enviro and measure diff

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12
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How do you measure behaviour

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Ethogram

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13
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What is the assumption with preference testing

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Approach/avoidance reflect the animals feelings

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14
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Problems with preference testing

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Previous experience affects preference

Choice between two evils or luxuries?

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How to adapt preference test

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Increase price of the luxury, how far will they go for it

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16
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Qualitative assessments

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Trusting your eyes
Assume the behaviour expression reflects the feelings
Can be anthropomorphic

17
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Cognitive bias

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Training to recognise -ve or +ve stimulus with neutral signal , see the diff groups response to signals

18
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5 freedoms

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From thirst &a hunger
From discomfort
From pain injury, etc
To express normal behaviour
From fear and distress
(Also companion ship yes/no)
19
Q

Why is animal welfare important

A 
Animal physical & mental health
Int tourism
Caring society
Protect market access
Economics
Food security
Improve PH & high quality animal science
20
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Key challenge to welfare

A

Incr food demand as population grows (double in 45 yrs)

21
Q

What is incr in India

A

Egg and broiler meat production but poor efficiency of dairy farms

22
Q

Largest egg producer in the world

A

China

23
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Biggest pork producer in the world

A

China

24
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What are the consumers concerns

A

Enviro protection
Animal health and welfare
Food security
Food safety

25
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How does incr animal welfare impact is

A

Animal welfare, incr animal health, incr human health

26
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Problems of chronic stress

A

More prone to ID
Shedding more bacteria
Incr antibiotic use

27
Q

Who has the animal welfare leader ship role

A

WHO

28
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Limitations of the 5 freedoms

A

Provide only basic req
Difficult to achieve all in most systems
Focus on -ve aspects mainly

29
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Concepts contributing to animal welfare

A

Physical
Mental
Naturalness

30
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Main animal welfare issues

A 
Enviro
Transport issues
Feeding regimes
Handling/stress
Management
Social
Health management
Pain management

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