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  1. A critical review on the welfare of Japanese quail in cage-free housing: Current knowledge and future perspectives
  2. Plasma oxytocin in dry dairy cows after using a mechanical brush
  3. What is a better chicken? Exploring trade-offs between animal welfare and greenhouse gas emissions in higher-welfare broiler systems
  4. Animal welfare: part of the solution, not part of the problem in the move toward achieving sustainable development in animal agriculture
  5. A consensus on the definition of positive animal welfare
  6. Looking back, looking forward: changes in the scope of the subject ‘animal welfare' within the World Organisation for Animal Health
  7. Friend or foe: effects of social experience and genetic line on responses of young gilts in a social challenge paired interaction test
  8. Untangling the role of environmental and host-related determinants for on-farm transmission of verotoxin-producing Escherichia coli O157
  9. Making the most of life: environmental choice during rearing enhances the ability of laying hens to take opportunities
  10. Comb size, shape complexity and laterality of laying hens reared in environments varying in resource choice
  11. Resource choice during ontogeny enhances both the short- and longer-term welfare of laying hen pullets
  12. Yttrande från SLU:s vetenskapliga råd för djurskydd om hållande av sällskapsdjur
  13. Sustainable Grazing by Cattle and Sheep for Semi-Natural Grasslands in Sweden
  14. Effects of early social mixing and genetic line on female piglet activity, pen location and social interactions pre- and post-weaning under Swedish commercial pig production conditions
  15. Can we use meat inspection data for animal health and welfare surveillance?
  16. Environmental change or choice during early rearing improves behavioural adaptability in laying hen chicks
  17. Age Rather Than Supplementation with Oat β-Glucan Influences Development of the Intestinal Microbiota and SCFA Concentrations in Suckling Piglets
  18. Welfare of broilers on farm
  19. Machine learning algorithms can predict tail biting outbreaks in pigs using feeding behaviour records
  20. Hållande av vaktel
  21. Leddjurs förmåga att känna smärta och uppleva lidande
  22. Transport av dräktiga djur, transport av unga djur och åldersbestämning av foster
  23. Investigating attentional scope as a novel indicator of emotional state in animals
  24. A global study to identify a potential basis for policy options when integrating animal welfare into the UN Sustainable Development Goals
  25. Increasing Environmental Complexity by Providing Different Types of Litter and Perches during Early Rearing Boosts Coping Abilities in Domestic Fowl Chicks
  26. Environmental Quality and Compliance with Animal Welfare Legislation at Swedish Cattle and Sheep Farms
  27. Unraveling the Complexity to Observe Associations Between Welfare Indicators and Hair Cortisol Concentration in Dairy Calves
  28. Towards a Positive Welfare Protocol for Cattle: A Critical Review of Indicators and Suggestion of How We Might Proceed
  29. The gut microbiota and microbial metabolites are associated with tail biting in pigs
  30. Supplementation of Lactobacillus early in life alters attention bias to threat in piglets
  31. Animal Welfare and the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals—Broadening Students’ Perspectives
  32. Litter and perch type matter already from the start: exploring preferences and perch balance in laying hen chicks
  33. Breakdown of the ideal free distribution under conditions of severe and low competition
  34. Improving welfare assessment indicators and protocols for poultry
  35. Socially engaged calves are more likely to be colonised by VTEC O157:H7 than individuals showing signs of poor welfare
  36. Anthropogenic Threats to Wild Cetacean Welfare and a Tool to Inform Policy in This Area
  37. Effect of work on body language of ranch horses in Brazil
  38. Animal Welfare and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
  39. Risk factors and dynamics of verotoxigenic Escherichia coli O157:H7 on cattle farms: An observational study combining information from questionnaires, spatial data and molecular analyses
  40. Individual variation over time in piglet´s reactions to early handling and its association to weight gain
  41. Individual play patterns stimulated by a familiar object are group-driven
  42. Revealing the structure of the associations between housing system, facilities, management and welfare of commercial laying hens using Additive Bayesian Networks
  43. Environmental complexity: A buffer against stress in the domestic chick
  44. Indicators of Good Welfare
  45. Cage size affects comfort, safety and the experienced security of working dogs in cars
  46. Towards Farm Animal Welfare and Sustainability
  47. Routine activities and emotion in the life of dairy cows: Integrating body language into an affective state framework
  48. Environmental complexity buffers against stress-induced negative judgement bias in female chickens
  49. Links between an Owner’s Adult Attachment Style and the Support-Seeking Behavior of Their Dog
  50. Associations between animal welfare indicators and Campylobacter spp. in broiler chickens under commercial settings: A case study
  51. Circus and zoo animal welfare in Sweden: an epidemiological analysis of data from regulatory inspections by the official competent authorities
  52. Cats and owners interact more with each other after a longer duration of separation
  53. Flock size during rearing affects pullet behavioural synchrony and spatial clustering
  54. An epidemiological analysis of equine welfare data from regulatory inspections by the official competent authorities
  55. Assessing stress in dogs during a visit to the veterinary clinic: Correlations between dog behavior in standardized tests and assessments by veterinary staff and owners
  56. Abnormal behaviour, stress and welfare.
  57. Injury incidence, reactivity and ease of handling of horses kept in groups: A matched case control study in four Nordic countries
  58. Measuring dog-owner relationships: Crossing boundaries between animal behaviour and human psychology
  59. Prevalence and risk factors for overweight horses at premises in Sweden assessed using official animal welfare control data
  60. The associations between animal-based welfare measures and the presence of indicators of food safety in finishing pigs
  61. Omnivores Going Astray: A Review and New Synthesis of Abnormal Behavior in Pigs and Laying Hens
  62. Assessing positive emotional states in dogs using heart rate and heart rate variability
  63. Human-animal interactions and safety during dairy cattle handling—Comparing moving cows to milking and hoof trimming
  64. Promoting positive states: the effect of early human handling on play and exploratory behaviour in pigs
  65. A Nordic survey of management practices and owners' attitudes towards keeping horses in groups1
  66. Evidence for a link between tail biting and central monoamine metabolism in pigs (Sus scrofa domestica)
  67. Assessing the welfare of laboratory mice in their home environment using animal-based measures – a benchmarking tool
  68. Dog behavior but not frontal brain reaction changes in repeated positive interactions with a human: A non-invasive pilot study using functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS)
  69. Early human handling in non-weaned piglets: Effects on behaviour and body weight
  70. The Effect of Stress, Attitudes, and Behavior on Safety during Animal Handling in Swedish Dairy Farming
  71. Proceedings of the 49th Congress of the International Society for Applied Ethology
  72. Prevalence of equine obesity in Sweden assessed from official animal welfare control data
  73. Mapping farm animal welfare education at university level in Europe
  74. Science-based management of livestock welfare in intensive systems: looking to the future
  75. Dogs' endocrine and behavioural responses at reunion are affected by how the human initiates contact
  76. I like my dog, does my dog like me?
  77. Positive affect and learning: exploring the “Eureka Effect” in dogs
  78. Disrupting motivational sequences in chicks: Are there affective consequences?
  79. Book of Abstracts of the 64th Annual Meeting of the European Association for Animal Production
  80. Stress measures in tail biters and bitten pigs in a matched case-control study
  81. Behavioural and Brain Gene Expression Profiling in Pigs during Tail Biting Outbreaks – Evidence of a Tail Biting Resistant Phenotype
  82. Icelandic horses with the Silver coat colour show altered behaviour in a fear reaction test
  83. Using data from electronic feeders on visit frequency and feed consumption to indicate tail biting outbreaks in commercial pig production1
  84. Evaluating the Strange Situation Procedure (SSP) to Assess the Bond between Dogs and Humans
  85. Health parameters in tail biters and bitten pigs in a case–control study
  86. Statistics on crimes committed to animals and changes in the animal welfare control in Sweden
  87. Brain gene expression differences are associated with abnormal tail biting behavior in pigs
  88. EU animal welfare policy: Developing a comprehensive policy framework
  89. Cognitive bias and anticipatory behaviour of laying hens housed in basic and enriched pens
  90. Scientific Opinion on animal health risk mitigation treatments as regards imports of animal casings
  91. Scientific Opinion on the use of animal‐based measures to assess welfare of broilers
  92. Developing a method to investigate motivational sequences in the chick
  93. Scientific Opinion on the public health hazards to be covered by inspection of meat (poultry)
  94. Scientific Opinion on the electrical requirements for waterbath stunning equipment applicable for poultry
  95. Statement on the use of animal‐based measures to assess the welfare of animals
  96. Scoring tail damage in pigs: an evaluation based on recordings at Swedish slaughterhouses
  97. Designing animal welfare policies and monitoring progress
  98. Scientific Opinion on foot-and-mouth disease in Thrace
  99. Scientific Opinion on Swine Vesicular Disease and Vesicular Stomatitis
  100. Students’ attitudes to animal welfare and rights in Europe and Asia
  101. Scientific Opinion on the use of animal-based measures to assess welfare in pigs
  102. Guidance on Risk Assessment for Animal Welfare
  103. Scientific Opinion on the use of animal-based measures to assess welfare of dairy cows
  104. Guidance on the risk assessment of food and feed from genetically modified animals and on animal health and welfare aspects
  105. Identifying potential risk situations for humans when removing horses from groups
  106. Keeping horses in groups: A review
  107. Assessing attraction or avoidance between rabbits: comparison of distance-based methods to analyse spatial distribution
  108. Behaviour and use of space in fattening rabbits as influenced by cage size and enrichment
  109. A scenario analysis on the implementation of a farm animal welfare assessment system
  110. Scientific Opinion on Epizootic Ulcerative Syndrome
  111. Scientific Opinion on the public health hazards to be covered by inspection of meat (swine)
  112. Glucocorticoid metabolites in rabbit faeces—Influence of environmental enrichment and cage size
  113. Tail biting in fattening pigs: Associations between frequency of tail biting and other abnormal behaviours
  114. Scientific Opinion on Hatchery Waste as animal by‐products
  115. Using judgement bias to measure positive affective state in dogs
  116. Scientific Opinion on bluetongue monitoring and surveillance
  117. Feather pecking behavior in laying hens: Hypothalamic gene expression in birds performing and receiving pecks
  118. Scientific Opinion on bluetongue serotype 8
  119. Training young horses to social separation: Effect of a companion horse on training efficiency
  120. Behaviour of domestic fowl in anticipation of positive and negative stimuli
  121. Scientific Opinion on monitoring for the emergence of possible new pandemic strains of influenza in animals
  122. Neighbourhood analysis as an indicator of spatial requirements of broiler chickens
  123. Using motivation to feed as a way to assess the importance of space for broiler chickens
  124. Scientific Opinion Concerning the Welfare of Animals during Transport
  125. Comparison of 3 methods for mixing unfamiliar horses (Equus caballus)
  126. The effect of time left alone at home on dog welfare
  127. An International Comparison of Female and Male Students’ Attitudes to the Use of Animals
  128. Reliability of an injury scoring system for horses
  129. Scientific Opinion on the practice of harvesting (collecting) feathers from live geese for down production
  130. Scientific Opinion on the increased mortality events in Pacific oysters,Crassostrea gigas
  131. Scientific Opinion on the pandemic (H1N1) 2009 influenza and its potential implications for animal health
  132. Scientific Opinion on Geographic Distribution of Tick-borne Infections and their Vectors in Europe and the other Regions of the Mediterranean Basin
  133. Scientific Opinion on the Role of Tick Vectors in the Epidemiology of Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever and African Swine Fever in Eurasia
  134. Scientific Opinion on the influence of genetic parameters on the welfare and the resistance to stress of commercial broilers
  135. Scientific Opinion on welfare aspects of the management and housing of the grand-parent and parent stocks raised and kept for breeding purposes
  136. Fear reactions in trained and untrained horses from dressage and show-jumping breeding lines
  137. Owning a Dog and Working: A Telephone Survey of Dog Owners and Employers in Sweden
  138. Resting or hiding? Why broiler chickens stay near walls and how density affects this
  139. Scientific Opinion on Q fever
  140. Scientific Opinion on African Swine Fever
  141. Scientific Opinion on Epizootic Hemorrhagic Disease
  142. Social interactions of unfamiliar horses during paired encounters: Effect of pre-exposure on aggression level and so risk of injury
  143. Using a national dairy database to identify herds with poor welfare
  144. An analysis of animal-based versus resource-based comments in official animal welfare inspection reports from organic and conventional farms in Sweden
  145. Stocking density effects on broiler welfare: Identifying sensitive ranges for different indicators
  146. Investigating horse–human interactions: The effect of a nervous human
  147. The influence of losing or gaining access to peat on the dustbathing behaviour of laying hens
  148. Impact of riding in a coercively obtained Rollkur posture on welfare and fear of performance horses
  149. Welfare Quality®project: from scientific research to on farm assessment of animal welfare
  150. Animal welfare's impact on the food chain
  151. How to assess the Rider's Sear and its affect on Horse's Behaviour
  152. Hens are motivated to dustbathe in peat irrespective of being reared with or without a suitable dustbathing substrate
  153. Effects of a calm companion on fear reactions in naive test horses
  154. Behaviour when young as a predictor of severe feather pecking in adult laying hens: The redirected foraging hypothesis revisited
  155. Assessment of positive emotions in animals to improve their welfare
  156. Perching behaviour in chickens and its relation to spatial ability
  157. Definition of criteria for overall assessment of animal welfare
  158. Feather pecking in chickens is genetically related to behavioural and developmental traits
  159. Reduction in feather pecking and improvement of feather condition with the presentation of a string device to chickens
  160. Responses of horses to novel visual, olfactory and auditory stimuli
  161. Why in earth? Dustbathing behaviour in jungle and domestic fowl reviewed from a Tinbergian and animal welfare perspective
  162. Healthy and Happy: Animal Welfare as an Integral Part of Sustainable Agriculture
  163. Feather-pecking and victim pigmentation
  164. Individual production differences do not explain cannibalistic behaviour in laying hens
  165. Decision support system with semantic model to assess the risk of tail biting in pigs
  166. Decision support system with semantic model to assess the risk of tail biting in pigs
  167. Decision support system with semantic model to assess the risk of tail biting in pigs1. Modelling
  168. Decision support system with semantic model to assess the risk of tail biting in pigs2. ?Validation?
  169. Feather pecking in poultry: the application of science in a search for practical solutions
  170. Applying scientific advances to the welfare of farm animals: why is it getting more difficult?
  171. Preen gland function in layer fowls: factors affecting preen oil fatty acid composition
  172. Nesting, perching and dustbathing.
  173. Decreasing aggression with increasing group size in young domestic fowl
  174. Social discrimination and aggression by laying hens in large groups: from peck orders to social tolerance
  175. Production-related traits of layers reared in different sized flocks: the concept of problematic intermediate group sizes
  176. Social effects on dustbathing behaviour in laying hens: using video images to investigate effect of rank
  177. How important is social facilitation for dustbathing in laying hens?
  178. Pecking at other birds and at string enrichment devices by adult laying hens
  179. Behaviour of laying hens in two types of aviary systems on 25 commercial farms in Sweden
  180. Dynamics of aggression in the domestic fowl
  181. The Push-Door for Measuring Motivation in Hens: An Adaptation and a Critical Discussion of the Method
  182. The Push-Door for Measuring Motivation in Hens: Laying Hens are Motivated to Perch at Night
  183. Why do hens sham dustbathe when they have litter?
  184. Behaviour of fowl and other domesticated birds.
  185. Behavioural disturbances, stress and welfare.
  186. No Effect of Social Competition on Sham Dustbathing in Furnished Cages for Laying Hens
  187. The social transmission of feather pecking in laying hens: effects of environment and age
  188. Group size and perching behaviour in young domestic fowl
  189. Body size and fluctuating asymmetry in relation to cannibalistic behaviour in laying hens
  190. The social behaviour of domestic birds.
  191. Effect of manipulating feathers of laying hens on the incidence of feather pecking and cannibalism
  192. Night-time roosting in laying hens and the effect of thwarting access to perches
  193. Relationship between feather pecking and ground pecking in laying hens and the effect of group size
  194. Rearing without early access to perches impairs the spatial skills of laying hens
  195. Changes in feather condition in relation to feather pecking and aggressive behaviour in laying hens
  196. The impact of social factors on nesting in laying hens (Gallus gallus domesticus)
  197. Effect of rearing factors on the prevalence of floor eggs, cloacal cannibalism and feather pecking in commercial flocks of loose housed laying hens
  198. Effect of group size on tonic immobility in laying hens
  199. Social facilitation acts more on the appetitive than the consummatory phase of feeding behaviour in domestic fowl
  200. Social Facilitation and Synchronization of Eating between Familiar and Unfamiliar Newly Weaned Piglets
  201. Spacing behaviour and an ethological approach to assessing optimum space allocations for groups of laying hens
  202. Inter-bird distances and behavioural priorities in laying hens: the effect of spatial restriction
  203. Chickens show socially facilitated feeding behaviour in response to a video image of a conspecific
  204. The preferences of hens for compact fluorescent over incandescent lighting
  205. Social spacing in domestic fowl under seminatural conditions: the effect of behavioural activity and activity transitions
  206. Relationship between behavioural activity and social space requirements in laying hens
  207. Effect of Time of Feeding on Oviposition Time and Production Parameters in Broiler Breeders
  208. Inter-individual distances and orientation in laying hens housed in groups of three in two different-sized enclosures
  209. Spacing in domestic fowl: The effects of rank and available space