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.
![Farm animal well-being](/themes/custom/farmanimalwellbeing/images/main-image.jpg)
![Farm animal well-being](/themes/custom/farmanimalwellbeing/images/main-image-mobile.jpg)
Because farm animal
well-being works.
2nd Expert Forum on Farm Animal Well-being, Alcalá de Henares (Spain), 2009
![forum-image-detail](/sites/default/files/styles/forum_280x396/public/2022-11/forum-image-detail%402x_8.jpg?itok=Gt9nBtw5)
-
ProceedingsDownload document
Lectures:
![Prof. Marina von Keyserlingk and Prof. Dan Weary](/sites/default/files/styles/lecture_165x225/public/2022-11/recurso_75.jpg?itok=gzdfDFSx)
The scientific assessment of animal welfare in dairy cattle
Prof. Dan Weary and Prof. Marina von Keyserlingk
University of British Columbia, Canada
![Dr. Cathy Dwyer](/sites/default/files/styles/lecture_165x225/public/2022-11/recurso_84.jpg?itok=V1kuNMkf)
Impact of a difficult birth process on maternal and neonatal health and development
Dr. Cathy Dwyer
Scottish Agricultural College, Edinburgh, UK
![Hanna Miedema](/sites/default/files/styles/lecture_165x225/public/2022-11/recurso_94.jpg?itok=XJvJVRpw)
Calving difficulty in dairy cows and behavioural changes before parturition
Hanna Miedema
University of Edinburgh, UK
![Prof. Xavier Manteca](/sites/default/files/styles/lecture_165x225/public/2022-11/recurso_85.jpg?itok=hgagdu__)
Behavioural modifications associated with calving in dairy cows and with farrowing in sows
Prof. Xavier Manteca
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
![Dr. Emma Roe](/sites/default/files/styles/lecture_165x225/public/2022-11/recurso_95.jpg?itok=BCAhIk8Z)
The developing market for welfare-friendly food products across Europe and the opportunities/ demand
Dr. Emma Roe
Southampton University, UK
![Mike Gooding](/sites/default/files/styles/lecture_165x225/public/2022-11/recurso_96.jpg?itok=h3Obd9CT)
Management practices improving animal well-being: role played by the retailers
Mike Gooding
FAI Farms Ltd, UK
![Armelle Prunier](/sites/default/files/styles/lecture_165x225/public/2022-11/recurso_97.jpg?itok=OBl33R8Y)
Welfare consequences of man-made painful husbandry procedures with special emphasis on surgical cast
Armelle Prunier
INRA, France
![Dr. Susanne Zöls](/sites/default/files/styles/lecture_165x225/public/2022-11/recurso_98.jpg?itok=tHYq5tL9)
Reduction of pain associated with piglet castration using NSAIDs
Dr. Susanne Zöls
Clinic for Swine, Germany
![Willem Maertens and Annelies Van Nuffel](/sites/default/files/styles/lecture_165x225/public/2022-11/recurso_99.jpg?itok=6udSJKzV)