Intro Flashcards
What is animal welfare not
Animal rights
Animal health
What is animal welfare
Animal is healthy and has what they want. Feel good about their environment
Quality of life scale where euthanasia is neutral
How measure welfare
Immunology Production measures Health Physiology Behaviour
How to measure production
Growth
Fertility
Fat &a protein
Milk yield
Immunology measures
Immunity
Blood sampling
Health measures
Symptoms
Injury
Healed injuries
Health records
Physiology measures
All others (except behaviour?) all physiological Body temp Brain/neurotransmitter HPA SA
Measuring the SA axis
Heart rate
Adrenaline
Adrenal medulla pathology
Activation of brain regions
Key HPA chemical released
Cortisol
Measure cortisol
Blood plasma Saliva Urine Milk Faeces Hair/will/ fur
Why are home pen observations good
Watch behaviour without influencing
Can do live or video
Can allow to change enviro and measure diff
How do you measure behaviour
Ethogram
What is the assumption with preference testing
Approach/avoidance reflect the animals feelings
Problems with preference testing
Previous experience affects preference
Choice between two evils or luxuries?
How to adapt preference test
Increase price of the luxury, how far will they go for it
Qualitative assessments
Trusting your eyes
Assume the behaviour expression reflects the feelings
Can be anthropomorphic
Cognitive bias
Training to recognise -ve or +ve stimulus with neutral signal , see the diff groups response to signals
5 freedoms
From thirst &a hunger From discomfort From pain injury, etc To express normal behaviour From fear and distress (Also companion ship yes/no)
Why is animal welfare important
Animal physical & mental health Int tourism Caring society Protect market access Economics Food security Improve PH & high quality animal science
Key challenge to welfare
Incr food demand as population grows (double in 45 yrs)
What is incr in India
Egg and broiler meat production but poor efficiency of dairy farms
Largest egg producer in the world
China
Biggest pork producer in the world
China
What are the consumers concerns
Enviro protection
Animal health and welfare
Food security
Food safety
How does incr animal welfare impact is
Animal welfare, incr animal health, incr human health
Problems of chronic stress
More prone to ID
Shedding more bacteria
Incr antibiotic use
Who has the animal welfare leader ship role
WHO
Limitations of the 5 freedoms
Provide only basic req
Difficult to achieve all in most systems
Focus on -ve aspects mainly
Concepts contributing to animal welfare
Physical
Mental
Naturalness
Main animal welfare issues
Enviro Transport issues Feeding regimes Handling/stress Management Social Health management Pain management
