Boehringer Ingelheim held its 3rd International Expert Forum on Farm Animal Well-Being in the heart of historical Barcelona. Some 100 participants from 10 different countries and a variety of scientific disciplines attended the meeting, including welfare scientists, behaviourists, veterinarians and representatives from the livestock industry. The forum’s practical approach and the speakers’ different fields of expertise allowed participants actively to engage on two of the driving forces behind welfare concerns: ethics and economics. The question-and-answer session offered a forum for interactive debate and revealed a potential gap between the opinions of some welfare experts and those of farmers.
Because farm animal
well-being works.
3rd Expert Forum on Farm Animal Well-being, Barcelona (Spain), 2010
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Lectures:
Opportunities and challenges in dairy calf housing and management for the next decade
Prof. Marina von Keyserlingk and Prof. Dan Weary
University of British Columbia, Canada
Play behaviour as an indicator of welfare in dairy calves
Margit Bak Jensen
University of Aarhus, Denmark
Evaluation of pain associated with routine procedures in piglets
Marion Kluivers
Wageningen UR Livestock Research, Lelystad, The Netherlands
Impact of anaesthesia and analgesia on post–castration behaviour and teat order of piglets
Prof. Eberhard von Borell and Tatjana Schmidt
Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany
The effect of parity and time on pain and discomfort associated with normal calving in dairy cows
Prof. Xavier Manteca
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
Indicators of pain in double muscled Belgian Blue cows following caesarean section
Iris Kolkman
Ghent University, Merelbeke, Belgium
Assessing indicators of pain and discomfort in the peripartal cow following dystocic calving in dair
Prof. Todd Duffield
University of Guelph, Canada
How much animal welfare can farmers afford to deliver?
Henri de Thoré
Elevage de Menez-Kamp, France
