Boehringer Ingelheim Animal Health held its 2nd International Expert Forum on Farm Animal Well-Being in Alcalá de Henares, Spain. Over 80 participants from ten different countries and a variety of fields attended the meeting, including welfare scientists, behaviourists, veterinarians and representatives from the livestock industry. This diversity of backgrounds encouraged a multidisciplinary exchange of ideas.
Because farm animal
well-being works.
2nd Expert Forum on Farm Animal Well-being, Alcalá de Henares (Spain), 2009
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Lectures:
The scientific assessment of animal welfare in dairy cattle
Prof. Dan Weary and Prof. Marina von Keyserlingk
University of British Columbia, Canada
Impact of a difficult birth process on maternal and neonatal health and development
Dr. Cathy Dwyer
Scottish Agricultural College, Edinburgh, UK
Calving difficulty in dairy cows and behavioural changes before parturition
Hanna Miedema
University of Edinburgh, UK
Behavioural modifications associated with calving in dairy cows and with farrowing in sows
Prof. Xavier Manteca
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
The developing market for welfare-friendly food products across Europe and the opportunities/ demand
Dr. Emma Roe
Southampton University, UK
Management practices improving animal well-being: role played by the retailers
Mike Gooding
FAI Farms Ltd, UK
Welfare consequences of man-made painful husbandry procedures with special emphasis on surgical cast
Armelle Prunier
INRA, France
Reduction of pain associated with piglet castration using NSAIDs
Dr. Susanne Zöls
Clinic for Swine, Germany
