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3rd Expert Forum on Farm Animal Well-being, Barcelona (Spain), 2010

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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.

Lectures:

Prof. Marina von Keyserlingk and Prof. Dan Weary

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
Margit Bak Jensen

Play behaviour as an indicator of welfare in dairy calves

Margit Bak Jensen

University of Aarhus, Denmark
Marion Kluivers

Evaluation of pain associated with routine procedures in piglets

Marion Kluivers

Wageningen UR Livestock Research, Lelystad, The Netherlands
Prof. Eberhard von Borell and Tatjana Schmidt

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
Prof. Xavier Manteca

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
Iris Kolkman

Indicators of pain in double muscled Belgian Blue cows following caesarean section

Iris Kolkman

Ghent University, Merelbeke, Belgium
Prof. Todd F. Duffield

Assessing indicators of pain and discomfort in the peripartal cow following dystocic calving in dair

Prof. Todd Duffield

University of Guelph, Canada
Henri de Thoré

How much animal welfare can farmers afford to deliver?

Henri de Thoré

Elevage de Menez-Kamp, France
Prof. Alistair Lawrence

Animal welfare and profitable farming: getting the best of both worlds

Prof. Alistair Lawrence

Scottish Agricultural College, Edinburgh, UK