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Taylor, P. S., Schrobback, P., Verdon, M. et al. 2023. An effective environmental enrichment framework for the continual improvement of production animal welfare. Animal Welfare 32, e14.

Substrates and objects are provided to farm animals on the assumption that they improve animal welfare by enriching the environment, but these often fail to consider the extent to which an environmental enrichment (EE) improves...

Small, A., Niemeyer, D., Hewitt, L. 2023. Evaluation of a commercial electrical stunning method for farmed grower saltwater crocodiles (Crocodylus porosus) using non-invasive EEG measurements. Animal Welfare 32, e49.

The aim of this study was to assess welfare outcomes of electrical stunning as a means of restraint in farmed grower saltwater crocodiles (Crocodylus porosus). Physical handling of a stunned, unconscious crocodile is far safer...

Pearce, S. J., Foster, A. P., Knowles, T. G. et al. 2023. A survey of handling and transportation of UK farmed deer. Animal Welfare 32, e30.

Studies on the transport of deer (Cervidae), in the UK, were published > 15 years ago. A more recent study of deer transport is required to allow for assessments and improvements to the transport of...

Lagoda, M. E., O’Driscoll, K., Galli, M. C. et al. 2023. Indicators of improved gestation housing of sows. Part II: Effects on physiological measures, reproductive performance and health of the offspring. Animal Welfare 32, e52.

Prenatal stress is the mechanism through which poor welfare of pregnant sows has detrimental effects on the health and resilience of their piglets. We compared two gestation housing systems (IMPROVED versus [conventional] CONTROL) in terms...

Lagoda, M. E., O’Driscoll, K., Galli, M. C. et al. 2023. Indicators of improved gestation housing of sows. Part I: Effects on behaviour, skin lesions, locomotion, and tear staining. Animal Welfare 32, e51.

Commercial gestation housing systems for sows generally fail to cater fully for their needs in terms of comfort or the ability to perform highly motivated behaviours, which can lead to chronic stress and an impairment...

Kells, N. J., Perrott, M., Johnson, C. B. 2023. The efficacy of electrical stunning of New Zealand rock lobster (Jasus edwardsii) and freshwater crayfish (Paranephrops zealandicus) using the CrustastunTM. Animal Welfare 32, e57.

Large numbers of decapod crustacea are farmed and harvested globally for human consumption. Growing evidence for the capacity of these animals to feel pain, and therefore to suffer, has led to increased concern for their...

Hampton, J. O., Hemsworth, L. M., Hemsworth, P. H. et al. 2023. Rethinking the utility of the Five Domains model. Animal Welfare 32, e62.

The Five Domains model is influential in contemporary studies of animal welfare. It was originally presented as a conceptual model to understand the types of impact that procedures may impose on experimental animals. Its application...

Dai, F., Costa, E. D., Minero, M. et al. 2023. Does housing system affect horse welfare? The AWIN welfare assessment protocol applied to horses kept in an outdoor group-housing system: The ‘parcours.’ Animal Welfare 32, e22.

Outdoor group housing is generally reported as being beneficial to the welfare of horses compared to single boxes, being considered to show greater similarities with the living conditions of feral horses, allowing full expression of...

Barrett, L., Maloney, S. K., Blache, D. 2023. Pekin ducks are motivated to lay in their preferred nest substrate. Animal Welfare 32, e28.

Nest design is one factor contributing to floor-laying in farmed poultry. We investigated: (i) if ducks (Anas platyrhynchos) prefer a particular nest substrate; and (ii) how important that preference is to them, indicated by stress-induced...

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