Intro Flashcards by Sally Stott

What is animal welfare not

Animal rights

Animal health

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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

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How measure welfare

Immunology
Production measures
Health
Physiology
Behaviour

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How to measure production

Growth
Fertility
Fat &a protein
Milk yield

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Immunology measures

Immunity

Blood sampling

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Health measures

Symptoms
Injury
Healed injuries
Health records

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Physiology measures

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

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Measuring the SA axis

Heart rate
Adrenaline
Adrenal medulla pathology
Activation of brain regions

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Key HPA chemical released

Cortisol

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Measure cortisol

Blood plasma
Saliva
Urine
Milk
Faeces
Hair/will/ fur

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Why are home pen observations good

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

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How do you measure behaviour

Ethogram

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What is the assumption with preference testing

Approach/avoidance reflect the animals feelings

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Problems with preference testing

Previous experience affects preference

Choice between two evils or luxuries?

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How to adapt preference test

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

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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 &amp;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 &amp; mental health
Int tourism
Caring society
Protect market access
Economics
Food security
Improve PH &amp; 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 ```