Ruminant Welfare Assessment—Second Edition
A special issue of Animals (ISSN 2076-2615). This special issue belongs to the section "Animal Welfare".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 March 2025 | Viewed by 96
Special Issue Editor
Interests: animal behaviour; dairy equipment; dairy technology; progress; welfare
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The goal of this Special Issue is to identify the key factors in assessing the welfare of different groups of ruminants. This Special Issue is a forum for presenting the results of research covering a wide range of topics in ruminant welfare, in conjunction with its assessment indicators. Within the broad area of ruminant animal welfare assessment, groups of animals kept on farms perfectly fit and predominate. In relation to this group of animals, the following issues are raised:
- Evaluation of the welfare of ruminants and their housing systems;
- Assessing the welfare of ruminants and housing areas (feeding and watering area, lying/resting area, milking area, social area) in livestock housing;
- Evaluation of ruminant welfare and environmental conditions (including livestock facility and paddock/pasture);
- Evaluation of ruminant welfare and technical and technological progress in professional animal production.
Equally important are questions about tools for assessing the welfare of ruminants, including appropriate procedures/protocols, the effects of their implementation, limitations in practical use and opportunities for their further improvement resulting from the development of knowledge on welfare. A valuable contribution to the development and summary of knowledge about the welfare of ruminants is made by the previously known and new proposals for indicators of welfare assessment.
The subject formulated in this way is of interest to many research teams conducting research with ruminants. However, the subject of ruminant animal welfare assessment also includes studies with ruminants that live in the wild. This Special Issue of Animals aims to draw works from all these teams, providing a forum for interdisciplinary discussion on how to improve the assessment of ruminant welfare.
Prof. Dr. Marek Gaworski
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- assessment
- indicator
- progress
- ruminants
- welfare
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