Aware of the fact that animal welfare has become a salient issue, Boehringer Ingelheim held its 4th International Expert Forum on Farm Animal Well-Being on 27th May in Seville. The meeting was attended by some 100 participants from 14 different countries and was divided into three sections with a total of nine presentations. This year’s edition also saw the announcement of an upcoming website dedicated to the Forum. The Forum’s presentations showed that there is an urgent need to raise farmers' awareness of basic and easy-to-implement guidelines for interaction with their animals and to communicate these guidelines directly to the farming community.
Because farm animal
well-being works.
4th Expert Forum on Farm Animal Well-Being, Sevilla (Spain), 2011
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Lectures:
Human-animal interactions in livestock production
Prof. Paul Hemsworth
University of Melbourne, Australia
Responsiveness of dairy cows to human approach and novel stimuli
Jenny Gibbons
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada BC, Canada
“Quality Handling” a training program to reduce fear and stress in farm animals
Xavier Boivin (1) and Marko Ruis (2)
(1) INRA, France (2) Wageningen University, The Netherlands
Caregiver impact on cattle performance and health
Dr. Tom Noffsinger
Independent feedlot consultant
Impact of dystocia on newborn calf vigor
Dr. Ken Leslie
University of Guelph, Canada
Birth difficulty effects on mother- offspring behaviour and offspring development
Dr. Cathy Dwyer
Sustainable Livestock Systems, SAC, Edinburgh, Scotland
Farrowing difficulties: a link between sow welfare and piglet welfare?
Prof. Xavier Manteca
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
Is the cost of animal welfare improvement the key limiting factor for farmers?
Dr. Helen (Becky) Whay
University of Bristol, UK
The relationship between the stockperson’s attitudes and the productivity of dairy cows
Dr. Donncha Hanna
Queen’s University Belfast, UK
