Feeding, Nutritional, and Welfare Management of Livestock: Practice and Regulation

A special issue of Agriculture (ISSN 2077-0472). This special issue belongs to the section "Farm Animal Production".

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Dear Colleagues,

As the global population continues to increase, food production has became an essential element of human development. It is therefore essential to produce means of utilizing resources, including animals used in the food industry. Among the many emerging problems in the livestock industry, ensuring adequate nutrition in the healthiest environment for farmed animals has become a challenge that concerns not only those in the industry, but also veterinarians and policy makers. This Special Issue aims to investigate state-of-the-art and future evolutions in the field of nutrition and welfare in livestock farming; thus, it will focus on many aspects concerning nutrition in livestock farming propaedeutics to a proper application of European and international rules on animal welfare and will guarantee higher-quality final products. For this, multidisciplinary research in the form of commentaries and articles is also highly sought.

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Keywords

  • animal feeding
  • animal welfare regulation
  • livestock

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A Simple Window Screen to Create Electric Discharges for Repelling and Exterminating Stable Flies and Houseflies in Cattle Barns
by Yoshihiro Takikawa, Yoshinori Matsuda, Koji Kakutani, Takahiro Sonoda and Hideyoshi Toyoda
Agriculture 2024, 14(9), 1435; https://doi.org/10.3390/agriculture14091435 - 23 Aug 2024
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The current study aimed to create an electrostatic window screen to keep stable flies and houseflies out of cattle barns. The screen comprised three identical framed metal nets arranged in parallel at specific intervals. The central net was connected to a negative-voltage generator [...] Read more.
The current study aimed to create an electrostatic window screen to keep stable flies and houseflies out of cattle barns. The screen comprised three identical framed metal nets arranged in parallel at specific intervals. The central net was connected to a negative-voltage generator to impart a negative charge, while the other two nets were grounded and placed on either side of the charged net. This configuration generated a corona-discharging electric field between the nets. The electric field produced negative ions and ozone around the negatively charged net, deterring houseflies from entering. Additionally, the screen emitted sparks via arc discharge to repel stable flies that did not exhibit avoidance behavior. The spark irradiation was intense enough to swiftly propel flies backward upon entering the electric field, ultimately leading to their demise. In summary, the device functioned as a corona-discharging screen to repel houseflies and as an arc-discharging screen to eliminate stable flies through spark irradiation. This study provides an experimental foundation for the development of an innovative device to manage undesirable flies in cattle barns. Full article
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